Armenia’s ambassador-at-large has called on the United States to intervene in Nagorno-Karabakh as the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry has announced the start of “local anti-terrorist measures” in the ethnic Armenian enclave which was annexed to Azerbaijan during the Soviet era.
“Azerbaijan launched local ‘anti-terrorist activities’ in Nagorno-Karabakh to restore the constitutional order, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.
‘Therefore, local anti-terrorist activities have been launched to ensure the provisions of the Trilateral Statement, suppress large-scale provocations in the Karabakh economic region, disarm and secure the withdrawal of formations of Armenia’s armed forces from our territories, neutralize their military infrastructure, provide the safety of the civilian population returned to the territories liberated from occupation, the civilians involved in construction and restoration work and our military personnel, and ultimately restore the constitutional order of the Republic of Azerbaijan’, the statement said.
The Defense Ministry added that it informed the command of the Russian peacekeepers and the leadership of the Monitoring Center about the ongoing events.
Azerbaijan and Armenia have fought two wars over Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous region wedged in between the two nations where both have a military presence. The decades-long conflict reignited in the fall of 2020, marking the worst escalation since the 1990s. Hostilities ended in a Russia-brokered ceasefire and the deployment of Russian peacekeepers to the region.
Yerevan and Baku began discussing a future peace treaty in 2022 with mediation from Russia, the European Union, and the United States. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in May that Yerevan was ready to recognize Azerbaijan's territorial integrity within boundaries that include Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has said that a peace treaty can be signed in the near future if Armenia does not change its position”. -Sputnik News
Considering that NATO stood behind Azerbaijan during the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War in 2020, and Armenia has sought assistance from Russia in response to the Azerbaijani attack, it appears as though the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh is shaking up to be another war by proxy between Russia and NATO intermediaries like we had witnessed in Syria, and now in Ukraine.