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Why Is Armenia Member of the EAEU and the CSTO?

The following was disseminated by the Union of Informed Citizens in Armenia.

"After restart of Karabagh war (commonly referred to as the 4-day war), Armenian people’s perception on many issues suffered a drastic change. After being attacked by new cutting edge tanks of Russian production, the TOS-1A “Solntsepyok” system that burns the infantry alive, and the “Smerch” multiple rocket launchers prohibited by Dublin Convention, people began to raise their concerns about a number of issues which had previously seemed to be “taboos”. In particular, it refers to Russian-Armenian relations, the EAEU and the CSTO. 

The EAEU’s Last Argument

In the recent years, it became obvious that Armenia’s membership in the EAEU causes more economic damage rather than economic benefit. It should be noted that in 2013 the Armenian side mentioned for several times that its membership in that union is aimed more at security of Armenia, rather than economy. However, the 4-day war in Artsakh (Armenian name for Nagorno Karabagh) showed that the EAEU does not solve any security issue.

First of all, it is worth reminding you that two of the members of EAEU, namely Belarus and Kazakhstan, had an obviously anti-Armenian position on the issue in question and supported Baku. Moreover, the Armenian Foreign Ministry even invited the ambassador of Belarus to Armenia to the ministry to demand explanation for Minsk’s statement on the conflict escalation. In the meantime, Kazakhstan announced that the meeting of EAEU prime ministers in Armenia is undesirable because of the war and that it would be more expedient to move the venue of the meeting to Moscow in order for the meeting not to be viewed as support to one of the conflict sides. Thus, this was simply a diplomatic step showing that the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan will not come to Armenia when military actions are being carried out against its friend Azerbaijan. 

The Death of the CSTO

Apparently, the prime minister of Kazakhstan has forgotten that his country is member of the CSTO. And if he considers that Armenia is a military conflict side, then Kazakhstan should support Armenia by any means.  

While Armenia’s de-jure military ally Kazakhstan’s prime minister decided not to come to Armenia because of the conflict, not less worrying was the behavior of Armenia’s military and strategic ally Russia’s prime minister. 

In particular, Dmitri Medvedev decided to cut short his two-day visit to Yerevan, and spend the second day of his visit in Baku. This step, which significantly contradicts the diplomatic ethics, must have been very insulting for the Armenian authorities even if Russia was not Armenia’s ally.

But in this case, we deal not only with disrespectful attitude, but also with factual betrayal by the ally because it is obvious that Medvedev cuts short his visit to Yerevan for the same reason as the prime minister of Kazakhstan decides not to come to Armenia in order not to “insult” Azerbaijan.

To put it differently, the Russian prime minister did not hesitate to violate the diplomatic ethics so that his visit is not viewed as any kind of support to Armenia. Ironically, our main strategic ally does not spare any effort in NOT supporting Armenia… Even politically. 

P.S. After all the aforementioned reflection, an important question comes to mind. Why should Armenia continue its membership in the CSTO and the EAEU?"

Daniel Ioannisyan, Anna Pambukhchyan,
“Union of Informed Citizens”

Comments (2)

Res Publica
А вы представляете как себя поведет азербаджан (с помощью турции), если мы выйдем с одкб!?!?! Не в интересах России выбирать Армению или азербаджан, а прежде всего, эти страны будут танцевать под её музыку. Нам пора научится надеется только на наши возможности (хотя в данный момент у нас их мало), только на нас и не от кого не обижаться и не в наших интересах портить отношение с Россией. Страна прежде должна быть здоровой из внутри, а потом лишь, усилить снаружи.
VladTheInhaler
The continuity of invasions murders rapes torture theft and overall terroist campaign of pan turkism is rooted in the true meaning of racism. Turko racism has been such a destructive force in the world for centuries now rivaling only that of the world wide communist regimes death tolls yet where are these so called righteous moral leaders of the world to unify and stamp out this threat that has stretched from asia to the mid east to N.africa all the way into europe. Turkkic Racism has impacted so many races that it is clear through the overt barbarism and oppression of the muslim kurds is rather revealing as to the motivation of the pan turkists jsut as the turkic role in this ISIS regime butchering muslims and christians alike in order to steal and regain those lost ottoman territories Racism that matters, unlike some name calling or stereotyping that causes no physical or economical health to others is arguably not the most important problem, but when 1 unified race of people get together to go and target other races of people to exterminate the bulk of and subjugate the remaining traumatized in order to procure the victims wealth in all forms thus enriching the offending race This act is a serious issue that has gone virtually unchecked in the so called moral international community whom had no problems supporting bosnians and albanians for their independence in european territory in fact they bombed civilian infrastructures in Belgrade so why is there no bombing of Baku and Ankara in support of artsakh is there an international conspiracy against the the down trodden christian armenians well it would seem that way now wouldnt it with so called allies both east and west yet never ever being allowed to recover from genocide the greeks are no exception to this either? CSTO it is obvious there is no room for the armenian race in this so called alliance they are being racially discriminated against in the favor of a non member of a pseudo nation created less than 100yrs ago

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