{"id":1216,"date":"2018-11-20T20:12:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T20:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/armenian\/?p=1216"},"modified":"2024-07-09T19:01:35","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T19:01:35","slug":"armenia-to-press-post-soviet-allies-on-arms-sales-to-azerbaijan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/armenian\/2018\/11\/20\/armenia-to-press-post-soviet-allies-on-arms-sales-to-azerbaijan\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenia to Press Post-Soviet Allies on Arms Sales to Azerbaijan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/armenian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2024\/01\/IAS-Leaders-of-Armenia-and-Belarus-at-the-CSTO-summit-on-Nov.-8-2018.-Official-photo-564x432.jpeg\"\n                    data-sizes=\"(min-width:1200px) 75vw, (min-width:768px) 83vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  alt=\"Leaders of Armenia and Belarus at the CSTO summit on Nov. 8, 2018. 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By selling weapons to this country you want to encourage, to assist their desires and expect us to say nothing?\u201d Pashinyan asked rhetorically, when discussing the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/news\/2018\/11\/15\/%E2%80%9CThe-Problem-of-CSTO-is-Armenia-%E2%80%9D-Says-President-of-Azerbaijan-Ilham-Aliyev\/348673\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent terse exchanges with Belarus<\/a>\u00a0in the context of disagreements within the Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).<\/p>\n<p>In the last decade, Belarus became one of the top weapons suppliers to Azerbaijan, behind only Russia, Israel and Turkey. Last June, Azerbaijan took delivery of long-range Chinese-manufactured missiles branded in Belarus as Polonez. Belarus previously sold Azerbaijan armor, artillery, Su-25 jets and air defense systems.<\/p>\n<p>Pashinyan also criticized his predecessors in government for not doing enough to hamper Azerbaijan\u2019s militarization.<\/p>\n<p>Occasionally, the government of Serzh Sargsyan did criticize weapons sales to Azerbaijan by CSTO partners. Since 2013, when Armenia announced plans to join the Eurasian Economic Union and shelved its pending agreement with the European Union, Russia curtailed its sales to Azerbaijan, though it continued to fulfill orders made earlier, including large-scale deliveries of armor, artillery and air defense systems.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2018,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/arminfo.info\/full_news.php?id=29305&amp;lang=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reports suggested\u00a0<\/a>that Armenia managed to stop the Polonez deal, but missiles showed up in Azerbaijan shortly after the change of government in Armenia in May. Pashinyan initially ignored the delivery.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Azerbaijan acquired longer-range LORA missiles from Israel. Like Sargsyan before him, Pashinyan\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/armenian.usc.edu\/focus-on-karabakh\/highlight\/armenia-stays-mum-new-missile-deliveries-azerbaijan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has not publicly reacted<\/a>\u00a0to Israeli sales. In Israel itself, weapons sales to Azerbaijan have been a matter of some political and legal\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/armenian.usc.edu\/focus-on-karabakh\/highlight\/report-israeli-company-involved-azerbaijani-attack-armenian-forces\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">controversy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":1217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-institute-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Armenia to Press Post-Soviet Allies on Arms Sales to Azerbaijan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/armenian\/2018\/11\/20\/armenia-to-press-post-soviet-allies-on-arms-sales-to-azerbaijan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Armenia to Press Post-Soviet Allies on Arms Sales to Azerbaijan - 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