Nancy Pelosi in Armenia after clashes with Azerbaijan

Published on: 09/17/2022 – 20:34 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi began a three-day visit to Armenia on Saturday, amid fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan killed more than 200 people this week. It is a “powerful symbol” for Yerevan. Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi arrived in Armenia on September 17, a visit announced the day before as the country has just been faced with violent clashes on its border with Azerbaijan. Nancy Pelosi, who is the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit Yerevan since the tiny Caucasian country gained independence in 1991, called his visit “a powerful symbol of America’s firm commitment to a peaceful, prosperous, and democratic Armenia, and a stable and safe region of the Caucasus”, in a press release.>> To see: “Armenia: on the border with Azerbaijan, ghost villages emptied of their inhabitants”This three-day visit “will play a big role for ensure our security,” Armenian Parliament Speaker Alen Simonyan told reporters ahead of his arrival. r the transport of hydrocarbons from the Caspian Sea, is prey to friction between the influence of Turkey, support of Azerbaijan, and that of Russia, theoretically guarantor of the security of Armenia where it has a military base, but very busy in Ukraine. Westerners are involved in the peace process as part of the OSCE Minsk Group. More than 200 people died in recent fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani troops , both parties blaming each other for it. These clashes erupted on Tuesday and ended in international mediation on Thursday night. It is an unprecedented escalation since 2020 threatening to torpedo a fragile peace process between the two rival Caucasian countries, which have led two wars – in 2020 and into the 1990s – for the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian-populated enclave in Azerbaijan. Nancy Pelosi had been at the center of geopolitical tensions between China and the United States in August, when she traveled to Taiwan in defiance of warnings from Beijing, which claims the island. With AFP