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The citizen of Armenia will win in this struggle for independence, sovereignty, democracy - PM addresses the nation posted at 20:52:54 UTC   via   armenpress.am  13:21, 24 September 2023 YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 24, ARMENPRESS. The Azerbaijani attacks against Armenia over the past years have lead to the obvious conclusion that Armenia’s external security systems are ineffective in terms of national interests and security, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has said. In an address to the nation on Sunday, PM Pashinyan said that a number of developments over the past years have led to the imperative of making assessments, re-assessments and conclusions. Below is the transcript of PM Pashinyan’s speech as  published  by his office.  “Dear people, dear compatriots, A number of events that have taken place in recent years have forced all of us to evaluate, re-evaluate the situation, and draw conclusions. What happened in Armenia, what is happening and what should happen? These are the questions the a

  Israeli Weapons Fuel Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict and Grease Palms of Corrupt Elite posted at 17:24:35 UTC   via   richardsilverstein.com Amnesty International graphic on Israeli arms exports It’s common knowledge that Israel is one of the  world’s largest arms exporters . As I  reported in Jacobin Magazine , it exports to the most genocidal regimes on the planet, and fuels ethnic conflicts from South Sudan to the Phillipines. Less known is the  role Israel is playing  the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. In fact, the latter’s largest cargo planes are  landing several times a week  at an Israeli military air base, loading up on Israeli weapons and ferrying them back to Azerbaijan, sometimes with stops along the way in Turkey, another Azeri military ally.  Nor is this a recent development.  Israel has been selling advanced weapons systems to the Azeris for years. And the deals haven’t stopped at weapons systems. Because of Azerbaijan strategic location sharing