Why was no one except Russia willing to sell weapons to Armenia until  2022? -Pashinyan`s clarification

ArmInfo.Until 2022, only one country was willing to sell weapons to Armenia. That was Russia. Other countries were hesitant because they doubted that Armenia would use the weapons solely for defending its internationally recognized sovereign territory. Prime Minister Pashinyan made this statements in  his concluding remarks during the parliamentary debates on the 2026 state budget draft  on November 13.

"Moreover, they said they were convinced we would use them outside  our internationally recognized territory. This was unacceptable to  them. This path opened up for us after October 6, 2022, when we  essentially declared the recognition of our country's territorial  integrity," Pashinyan said.

 It should be noted that following the quadripartite meeting held on  October 6 in Prague between Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan,  Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, French President Emmanuel Macron,  and European Council President Charles Michel, a statement was  adopted where Armenia and Azerbaijan reaffirmed their commitment to  the UN Charter and the 1991 Alma-Ata Declaration, by which both sides  recognize each other's territorial integrity and sovereignty.  Pashinyan thus recognized Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) as part of  Azerbaijan. On October 5, 2023, in Granada, Spain, on the sidelines  of the European Political Community summit, Nikol Pashinyan signed a  declaration recognizing Azerbaijan's area of 86,600 square  kilometers, including Nagorno-Karabakh.