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According to an Azerbaijani source from 2015, Pakistan refuses to recognise Armenia until Armenia withdraws its troops from "Azerbaijan" (meaning Nagorno-Karabakh / Artsakh). In September 2023, Azerbaijan conquered Nagorno-Karabakh and there are now no pro-Armenian soldiers and almost no Armenians left in the territory. Azerbaijan has full operational control of the territory, but Pakistan still has not recognised Armenia.

As of 2024, what reason or reasons remain for Pakistan to not recognise Armenia?

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    Inertia? Lack of a final settlement? It's not like Armenia wouldn't put the troops back there if it could.
    – James K
    Commented Apr 2 at 12:10
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    Plus, both countries have little trade or people relations with the other and no superpower has vested interests in those relations. There's no "trigger" for Pakistan to recognize Armenia.
    – whoisit
    Commented Apr 2 at 12:25
  • @JamesK: the current gov't of Armenia recognized Az's claim to Karabah. It was one of the big reasons invoked by Putin for not helping them.
    – 264 champagne bottles on ice
    Commented Apr 2 at 12:26
  • @JamesK: Somewhat obscure facts "The Republic of Artsakh was never recognized by any UN member state, including Armenia." The separatist leader Shahramanyan 'took back' the dissolution of Artakh though, once in exile barrons.com/news/… But Pashinian's gov't pretty much lashed out at him, for that. azatutyun.am/a/32746544.html
    – 264 champagne bottles on ice
    Commented Apr 2 at 12:41
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    @whoisit Laos also has very little trade with Guatemala, or Cameroon with Albania.
    – gerrit
    Commented Apr 2 at 13:17

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Because of Turkish disapproval.

Turkey and Armenia don't have any diplomatic relations between them because of the Armenian Genocide in 1915, which Turkey continues to deny ever happened.

On the other hand, Turkey is one of Pakistan's closest allies, both politically and militarily (the other one is China).

For example, there is a proverb in Pakistan that "Turkey and Pakistan are two countries but one nation."

Turkey is the second most important defense partner of Pakistan, so much so that Turkey banned arms exports to India.

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  • Good answer and plausible. For people not so familiar with Turkish-Pakistani relations, this answer could be improved by adding sources.
    – gerrit
    Commented Aug 26 at 15:15
  • @gerrit, This answer is common knowledge in the South Asian region.
    – user366312
    Commented Aug 26 at 19:34
  • Possibly another factor is that Armenia is buying weapons from India etvbharat.com/en/!international/… Albeit not a lot, because they are piss poor.
    – 264 champagne bottles on ice
    Commented Aug 26 at 19:49
  • @MakeStackExchangeGREAT4ever, No, it is not a factor at all.
    – user366312
    Commented Aug 26 at 19:49

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