On Tuesday, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said that he had cancelled military drills planned by the Collective Security Treaty Organisation — a Russian-dominated alliance of post-Soviet nations — later this year,"At least this year, these drills won't take place," he said at a press conference, calling the drills"inappropriate in the current situation."
"Russia's military presence in Armenia not only fails to guarantee its security, but it raises security threats for Armenia," Pashinyan added, according to AP. The Armenian leader also criticised Russian peacekeepers' failure to take a more active role around the disputed separatist region of Nagorno-Karabak, saying that he will seek support from the US and the European Union to help ease the tensions with Azerbaijan.
Nagorno-Karabakh has been under the control of ethnic Armenian forces since a separatist war there ended in 1994. Starting last month, Azerbaijani activists have been blocking a free corridor linking Armenia to the region. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov played down the quarrel, calling the country"our very close ally," according to AP. In a CSTO summit last November, Putin wasOther members of CSTO include Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. Azerbaijan is not part of the group.
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