Nikol Pashinyan makes plea to US: New York Times

Alparslan Ozturk
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Armenia's prime minister Nikol Pashinyan has phoned the national security adviser, Robert O'Brien.

Pashinyan said he was promised a call with US President Donald Trump over Turkey's role in the intensifying conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. Then Mr. Trump fell ill.

Report informs citing the New York Times. When Nikol Pashinyan spoke by telephone on Thursday with President Trump's national security adviser, he asked: "Why is nothing being done to stop a longtime United States ally, Turkey, from using American-made F-16 jets against ethnic Armenians in a disputed mountain region?"

Notably, the Turkish Ministry of National Defense and the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry have denied the enemy's claim.

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