MOSCOW
Russia condemned the West’s “brutal and shameless approach” in its efforts to resolve issues between Azerbaijan and Armenia, accusing the United States and the EU of “self-promotion. “
In a message on Telegram on Monday night, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the U. S. was not yet in the U. S. The US and EU sought exposure seeking credit for the détente achieved through the trilateral engagement between Baku, Yerevan and Moscow.
“The brusqueness and insolence of the West can also be noticed in efforts to normalize relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Regional specificities and sensitivity of the challenge are not taken into account,” he said.
“The genuine goals of Washington and Brussels are to find compromise and balanced solutions, but self-promotion and the expulsion of Russia from Transcaucasia,” he added, referring to the South Caucasus region.
Zakharova said Western envoys visit more Armenia to provide “hastily invented” projects that take regional interests into disregard, hiding them behind the flag of the EU or the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
These Western measures threaten “the balance that has been achieved in difficult situations thanks to the agreements between the leaders of Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia,” he warned.
Moscow negotiated the deal that ended the 2020 standoff between the two former Soviet republics, which have had tense relations since 1991, when Armenia occupied Nagorno-Karabakh, a territory identified around the world as part of Azerbaijan.
Fighting resumed last month, with nearly three hundred lives lost in the worst outbreak since 2020.
Amid heightened tensions, the OSCE sent a “needs assessment team” to Armenia last week, a questionable move strongly condemned by Azerbaijan, Russia and Turkey.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu denounced the resolution as “unacceptable” and said it is contrary to OSCE operating rules.
He said the OSCE has failed to resolve the long-standing dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia because it has “sided with the occupier” for the past three decades.