« Does this mean that NATO has given Turkey the green light ? » Armen Sarkissian
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“If I go to Brussels,” he said in an interview with POLITICO, “I would
like to speak to the NATO leadership as to why this very strange
situation is taking place where Turkey, a full NATO member, is involved
in a war that has nothing to do with NATO. How on earth is it that a
NATO member is acting as freely as a cowboy and NATO does nothing ? Does
this mean they have a green light from NATO ?”
Sarkissian said he wanted to visit NATO’s Brussels headquarters to “get
explanations” as to why “Turkish weapons, drones and F-16 are involved
in the process of bombing Armenia and Armenian civilians in huge
numbers. These are NATO-made weapons : the engines from Austria, the
avionics are from Canada and the parts of the rockets are from Britain
and so on.”
Sarkissian said he was also ready to travel to Paris, London and Berlin
to make Armenia’s case to European leaders. “I am ready to tell [Angela]
Merkel,” he said, “that I understand that Europe is busy with other
things and everyone is busy with COVID-19, but dear Madam Chancellor
what you are probably not seeing clearly is that there is another
disaster coming from the Caucasus to you that is not a biological virus
but the virus of instability and war.”
Sarkissian said he wanted the German chancellor to understand that “the
war of Turkey and Azerbaijan risks creating another Syria. Or making
Turkey the creator and the ruler of an energy crisis to Europe.”
(Pipelines crucial to the EU’s energy supply pass close to
Nagorno-Karabakh.)