US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday strongly condemned what she said were \u201cillegal\u201d border attacks by Azerbaijan on Armenia, using a visit to the Russian ally to pledge American support for its sovereignty.
\nPelosi cast her trip to Armenia, a sliver of land the size of US state of Maryland that is wedged between Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey and Iran, as an attempt to strengthen support for what she cast as a beacon of democracy.
\nSpeaking in the ancient city of Yerevan, Pelosi said her trip had significance following the \u201cillegal and deadly attacks by Azerbaijan on Armenian territory\u201d that triggered border clashes in which more than 200 people were killed.
\n\u201cWe strongly condemn those attacks,\u201d Pelosi said beside Armenian parliamentary speaker Alen Simonyan, who last week expressed unhappiness with the response of a Russian-led military alliance to Yerevan\u2019s request for help.
\nPelosi, who angered China with a trip to Taiwan last month, said it was clear that the border fighting was triggered by Azeri assaults on Armenia and that the chronology of the conflict should be made clear. The fighting \u201cwas initiated by the Azeris and there has to be recognition of that,\u201d Pelosi said.
\nRemarks a blow to peace efforts: Pelosi\u2019s remarks drew an unusually strong rebuke from Baku, which said she was endangering the peace in the Caucasus.
\n\u201cThe unsubstantiated and unfair accusations levelled by Pelosi against Azerbaijan are unacceptable,\u201d the foreign ministry said in a statement. \u201cThis is a serious blow to the efforts to normalize relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan,\u201d the ministry said, casting Pelosi\u2019s remarks as \u201cArmenian propaganda\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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