Armenian MP Gegham Nazaryan from the main opposition Hayastan faction expressed his team’s stance on the deployment of 100 Armenian troops to Kazakhstan as part of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) peacekeeping mission.
In a Facebook post late on Friday, the lawmaker said there had been numerous requests for the faction’s position on sending peacekeepers to the unrest-hit country.
“The Hayastan faction believes that Armenia did not have to prevent the deployment of a CSTO contingent to Kazakhstan, but no Armenian serviceman should have left for that country, for a very understandable reason,” he wrote.
The MP cited Kazakhstan’s pro-Azerbaijani stance during the 44-day war in Artsakh.
“Kazakhstan also congratulated Azerbaijan on November 9. I think our position is completely clear.
“I would like to add that in the current situation, when the wounds of the war have not yet healed and its effects are still visible, not a single Armenian soldier should be sent to a foreign country, especially to Kazakhstan, where only intra-clan issues are being resolved, not inter-clan,” Nazaryan noted.