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Karabakh: Israel regrets the recall of the Ambassador of Armenia

2020-10-01T21:38:41.118Z


Israeli diplomacy deplored on the night of Thursday to Friday the recall of the Armenian ambassador to Israel, a country accused by Armenia of selling weapons to its Azerbaijani rival for control of the disputed region of Nagorno Karabakh. “Israel regrets Armenia's decision to recall the Armenian Ambassador to Israel for consultations. Israel attaches importance to its relationship with Armenia an


Israeli diplomacy deplored on the night of Thursday to Friday the recall of the Armenian ambassador to Israel, a country accused by Armenia of selling weapons to its Azerbaijani rival for control of the disputed region of Nagorno Karabakh.

“Israel regrets Armenia's decision to recall the Armenian Ambassador to Israel for consultations.

Israel attaches importance to its relationship with Armenia and considers the Armenian embassy in Israel as an important tool to promote relations for the benefit of our two peoples ”

, reacted, in a night message to the press, the ministry. Israeli Foreign Office.

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The separatist territory of Nagorno Karabakh has for five days been the scene of new bloody clashes between Azerbaijan and separatist forces backed by Armenia.

According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri) database, Israel was the first known foreign supplier of arms to Azerbaijan from 2017 to 2019 with sales exceeding $ 375 million.

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According to the Israeli press, the specialist company Elbit Systems notably sold last year the first devices of its new range of military drones to Azerbaijan, a country with which Israel has maintained diplomatic relations since the fall of the USSR in early 90s.

Armenia, which has also maintained relations with Israel since the break-up of the USSR in the early 1990s, opened its first embassy on Israeli soil in Tel Aviv in mid-September.

Source: lefigaro

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