Azerbaijan issues warning as Russian ally teeters

A senior Azerbaijani diplomat has said that regional stability can only come from a comprehensive peace deal with Armenia. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan clings to power amid angry protests sparked by Baku's lightning victory in the latest conflict over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh territory.

"They need to decide their prime minister. We can't decide it for them," Elin Suleymanov, Azerbaijan's ambassador to the U.K. and its former representative in the U.S., told Newsweek of the turmoil roiling Yerevan.

"The only issue which matters for us is that whoever is in power understands that any attempt to occupy Azerbaijani land, to question the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Azerbaijan, will not end positively," Suleymanov added.