The SVR says the US is provoking Armenia and Azerbaijan to break the peace in Karabakh

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The United States and its European allies provoke Armenian and Azerbaijani nationalists to disrupt the ceasefire agreements in Karabakh, Sergei Naryshkin, director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), said on Wednesday.

The leading NATO countries are trying to hide their irritation with the agreement reached with the active participation of Russia by Azerbaijan and Armenia on a ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh. The United States and its allies are annoyed that the war was stopped with the mediation of Moscow. After all, this, in fact nullified their many years of work on ousting Russia from the Transcaucasia, Naryshkin said in a statement released by the SVR press service.

According to the information we have, some Western countries, through the available channels, provoke Armenian and Azerbaijani nationalists to discredit and break the ceasefire agreement. Armenians are trying to convince that peace in Nagorno-Karabakh is Yerevan’s defeat. a victorious end. Azerbaijanis, on the contrary are told that the Kremlin stole victory from them when the Azerbaijani army was one step away from taking Khankendi (Stepanakert, the capital of the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic - IF), Naryshkin said.

He noted that neither the United States nor Europe want to put up with the existing balance of power in the region: In order to dismantle it, they did not think of anything better than to try again to incite discord between the peoples of Azerbaijan and Armenia.

Such actions are further evidence that the United States and its European friends, as always, are solving their problems at the expense of the interests of ordinary people, this time Azerbaijanis and Armenians. Americans and Europeans are not worried that their provocations may lead to new bloodshed and plunge the region into a difficult military conflict, the SVR director emphasized.