Hidden deliveries: Belarus supplied arms to Azerbaijan despite partnership with Armenia
Belarus, despite partnering with Armenia as part of the Collective Security Treaty Organization , supplied modern military equipment to Azerbaijan between 2018 and 2022, when the conflict in Karabakh reached its peak. This is reported by Politico, citing ” twelve correspondence, official notes, and invoices of exchange and export passports.”
Helping the enemy :Belarus provided arms to Azerbaijan during the conflict with Armenia
As you know, the CSTO is a military-political international organization consisting of Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan under the de facto leadership of the Russian Federation, which is constantly trying to present this organization as an alternative to NATO. According to the countries comprising the Collective Security Treaty Organization are obliged to support each other.
However, according to Politico, between 2018 and 2022, when tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh, Belarus provided active assistance to the Azerbaijani military, that is, its ally’s enemy.
According to the documents, there was talk of upgrading old artillery equipment and supplying new equipment for electronic warfare equipment and drone systems.One of the diplomatic messages noted Belarusian companies are actively involved “in restoring the previously occupied Belarusian enterprises play an active role “in the restoration of Azerbaijan’s de-occupied territories, as well as in exporting Belarusian goods and services” to the country.
Eduard Arakelyan, a military analyst at the Yerevan Regional Center for Democracy and Security, confirmed that the leaked documents concerned equipment used by Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Relations between the two countries are at the peak of tension
Recently, Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan said that he would not go to Belarus as long as Alexander Lukashenko was president there, and added: “And in general, I declare that from now on not a single official representative of Armenia will go to Belarus.”
Pashinyan’s statement came in response to Alexander Lukashenko, the President of Belarus publicly supporting Ilham Aliyev, the President of Azerbaijanat a meeting in May, where he said Baku could “always count on help” from Minsk.
Pashinyan recently announced that Armenia leaving the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) is on the table. Afterward, the Armenian Foreign Ministry refuted the information that Pashinyan had announced the country’s withdrawal. from the organization.
This is not the prime minister’s first statement about withdrawing from the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), the Russian analogue of NATO, a military-political international the organization consisting of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan.In the spring, Pashinyan noted that this would happen if Yerevan did not receive a clear explanation about the readiness of this military bloc to defend Armenia.