Call to Action<\/strong><\/p>\n Armenia sent an 83-person strong military mission to Aleppo, Syria comprised of servicemen, military and civilian de-miners and medics. Russian and Assad’s forces have been in control of Aleppo since its capture in 2017. With the announcement of US withdrawal from Syria, Russia has been adamantly establishing its positions in the country by strengthening its forces and pulling along its closest allies. Armenia was the first ally of Moscow to publicly announce its decision to go hand-in-hand with Kremlin in its foreign policy endeavors in the Middle East.<\/p>\n Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan described this step by Yerevan as a \u201cjoint decision\u201d of Russia and Armenia back in September 2018 after meeting Russian President Putin in Moscow.<\/p>\n Portraying the joint mission as \u201chumanitarian\u201d Armenia announced it on February 8, 2019 when its Defense Minister met his Russian counterpart in Moscow. Russian Defense Minister thanked Armenia for being the \u201cfirst to respond to our (Russian) appeal to help the Syrian people,\u201d and called it a \u201csignificant contribution\u201d while Armenian Defense Minister thanked Russia for \u201corganizing our humanitarian mission in Syria.\u201d Armenian Defense Ministry also clarified that Armenian military will serve in Syria \u201cwith the assistance of the Russian side.\u201d Armenia’s joining Russian counterparts in Syria signifies the “presence” of international support to Russia’s presence in the country.<\/p>\n This is the first serious foreign policy decision by the new Pashinyan Government formed in Armenia in January. For Prime Minister Pashinyan, it is a personal oath of loyalty to Moscow while for Armenia it reconfirms the path of unbreakable dependence on Russia.<\/p>\n Please take a moment to send this letter to your elected officials and local media to inform them about the development, and how Armenia continues to work against US interests in Syria and the region, as a whole. U.S. Azeris Network [usazerisnetwork@gmail.com] Call to Action Armenia sent an 83-person strong military mission to Aleppo, Syria comprised of servicemen, military and civilian de-miners and medics. Russian and Assad’s forces have been in control o Call to Action Armenia sent an 83-person strong military mission to Aleppo, Syria comprised of servicemen, military and civilian de-miners […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":634156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[10437,1456,10438],"class_list":["post-662980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey","tag-armenian-military","tag-armenians","tag-ermeni"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"gYIxSVsjhqPPmfFgBeGtYw.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/www.votervoice.net\/Content\/images\/pixel.jpg\"){kind=tracking}
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