Monday, October 5, 2020

Armenian PM: US Needs to Explain If It Gave Turkey F-16s 'to Bomb Peaceful Villages' in Karabakh

US Needs to Explain If It Gave Turkey F-16s 'to Bomb Peaceful Villages' in Karabakh

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan expressed concerns to Donald Trump National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien about Turkey's alleged use of American-made F-16 fighters to attack Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh.


"The United States needs to explain whether it gave those F-16s to [Turkey to] bomb peaceful villages and peaceful populations," Pashinyan said, speaking to The New York Times about what he told O'Brien in a telephone call Thursday.

According to the prime minister, the national security adviser "heard and acknowledged" the Armenian side's concerns.

In his NYT interview, Pashinyan also reiterated allegations he's made elsewhere that the current flare-up of fighting for the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region has been "encouraged" by Turkey, calling the latest escalation "a continuation of the genocidal policies carried out by Turkey against Armenians", in reference to the Armenian Genocide at the beginning of the 20th century.

Calling the dispute between Armenians and Azerbaijanis in the South Caucasus exclave a "civilisational front line", Pashinyan suggested that the Armenian side was "the last remaining obstacle in the way of Turkish expansion toward the North, the South, and the East".

 FARS

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