ARMENIA-UNITED STATES Pelosi visits Yerevan and supports the Armenians against Baku

The mission of the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives after the new clashes between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Karabakh. Washington’s role in mediating the ceasefire. Many Armenians ask to leave the Russia-led CSTO and demand to join NATO.

Moscow () – Nancy Pelosi visited Armenia immediately after the violent clashes with Azerbaijan in the disputed areas of Nagorno-Karabakh. The Speaker of the United States House of Representatives condemned the Baku attacks, calling them an aggression against the sovereignty of Armenia, “a country that is of great importance to us Americans,” she explained in her meeting with the representative of the National Assembly of Yerevan, Allen Simonyan.

The United States co-chairs the OSCE Minsk Group for Peace Agreements and its intention is to prevent the conflict from culminating in military action, as Pelosi recalled: “I hope that it will be possible to advance through the negotiations; we will continue to defend the Armenia’s territorial integrity against all those who endanger it.” The fragile truce signed on September 14 is largely due to mediation by Washington.

Later, Pelosi commented on social networks: “in 1787, our founders preferred democracy to autocracy, and from generation to generation we have defended and guarded their decision.” This is what we do today, from the United States to Ukraine, Taiwan, Armenia, all the countries that are faced with this option. The decision in this case rests with Armenia, but we announce our “availability”.

Asked whether the United States is also willing to provide military support to Yerevan, Pelosi did not directly answer. He spoke of the importance of the visit and limited himself to saying: “we are here to listen, to understand what can be done and what is expected of us, and we have discussed many economic and security issues.” She was also asked why the United States has not issued sanctions against Azerbaijani President Aliev, and the official assured that they will continue “working on these issues, we have invited Armenia to the summit of democratic countries and we have condemned the Armenian genocide, we will see what decisions we take about it.”

In Yerevan, Pelosi’s visit was greeted by groups of protesters calling for Armenia to leave the CSTO (the “Eurasian NATO” obedient to Russia) to place itself under US protection as MNNA (“Major Non-Nato Ally”) but by sending a group of observers to protect the attacked Armenian territories. The very head of the CSTO peace mission on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, Anatolij Sidorov, admitted that “both in these territories and on the borders between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, many difficulties have arisen for our mediation efforts.” CSTO Secretary Stanislav Zas will arrive in Armenia in the coming days to determine what to do at this juncture.

The 82-year-old Italian-American congresswoman has served in Congress for 35 years. She has been in the front row at the inauguration of seven American presidents, from Reagan and GW Bush to Trump and Biden, and today she appears to be the most influential woman in American politics. Having gone “from the kitchen to politics”, as she herself has recalled more than once, she now represents the rights of women and the weakest against the arrogance of the powerful throughout the world. She so she did her on her recent trip to Taiwan, which aroused the ire of Beijing.

Despite her long career and advanced age, Pelosi says she has no intention of retiring from public activity and, according to her biography, “doesn’t even tell her husband when she’s retiring.”