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This is false.bs. armenia got all support from the collective west and russia meanwhile azerbaijan didnt even have support from turkiye. They were totally alone.
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan made extensive use of mercenary pilots. According to HRW, "Most informed observers believe that mercenaries pilot most of Azerbaijan's air force."[441]
Several foreign groups fought on the Azerbaijani side: Chechen militants, Afghan mujahideen,[442] members of the Turkish nationalist Grey Wolves,[443] and the Ukrainian nationalist and neo-fascist UNA-UNSO.[444] The Chechen fighters in Karabakh were led by Shamil Basayev, who later became Prime Minister of Ichkeria (Chechnya), and Salman Raduyev.[445] Basayev famously participated in the battle of Shusha in 1992.[445][446] Saudi-born Ibn al-Khattab may have also joined them.[447] The Afghan mujahideen were mostly affiliated with the Hezb-e Islami, led by Afghan Prime Minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.[448][449] According to HRW, they were "clearly not motivated by religious or ideological reasons" and were, thus, mercenaries.[449] The recruitment of Afghan mujahideen, reportedly handled by paramilitary police chief Rovshan Javadov, was denied by Azerbaijani authorities.[449][450] They first arrived to Azerbaijan in fall 1993 and numbered anywhere between 1,500 and 2,500[449] or 1,000 and 3,000.[451] Armenia alleged that they were paid for by Saudi Arabia.[448] Afghan mujahideen constituted the most considerable influx of foreign fighters during the war.[451] Some 200 Grey Wolves were still present in the conflict zone as of September 1994 and were engaged in training Azerbaijani units.[452]
Artsakh and Armenia
Some 85 Russian Kuban Cossacks and around 30 Ossetian volunteers fought on the Armenian side.[453][454] In May 2011, a khachkar was inaugurated in the village of Vank in memory of 14 Kuban Cossacks who died in the war.[455] Ossetian volunteers reportedly came from both South Ossetia (Georgia) and North Ossetia (Russia).[456][457] No less than 12 diaspora Armenian volunteers fought and four diaspora fighters died in the war.[458][459] According to David Rieff, members of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaks), "including a substantial number of volunteers from the diaspora, did a great deal of the fighting and dying."[460] Former members of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) also participated in the war.[461]
Diplomatic support
Artsakh and Armenia
Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh Republic) has received diplomatic recognition[462] and diplomatic support, especially during the 2016 clashes, from three partially recognized states: Abkhazia,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagorno-Karabakh_conflict#cite_note-471[463][464] South Ossetia,[j][465] and Transnistria.[k][466]
During the war, Greece adopted a pro-Armenian position[467] and supported it in international forums.[468][393] During the April 2016 and July 2020 clashes, Cyprus condemned Azerbaijan for violating the ceasefire.[469][470]
Armenian President Levon Ter-Petrosyan reportedly told the Greek ambassador in 1993 that France and Russia were Armenia's only allies at the time.[471] According to a US State Department cable released in 2020, the French ambassador to the UN, Jean-Bernard Mérimée, succeeded in changing the wording of the UNSC Resolution 822 to state that it was "local Armenian forces", not "Armenian forces" that occupied Kalbajar. He also suggested treating the Armenian capture of Kalbajar not under Chapter VII of the UN Charter (an act of aggression), but Chapter VI (a dispute that should be settled peacefully).[472]
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan has received explicit diplomatic support in the conflict from several countries and international organizations. Azerbaijan's strongest diplomatic supporters are Turkey and Pakistan,[473][474] which is the only UN member state not to have recognized Armenia's independence in support for Azerbaijan.[475] Turkish-backed unrecognized Northern Cyprus (Turkish Cyprus) also supports Azerbaijan.[476] The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)[477] and the Turkic Council[478] have repeatedly supported the Azerbaijani position. Some member states of these organizations, namely Uzbekistan[479] and Saudi Arabia[480] have voiced support for Azerbaijan's position on their own repeatedly. Lebanon, on the other hand, has not supported OIC's pro-Azerbaijani resolutions.[481]
Azerbaijan has received diplomatic support, namely for its territorial integrity, from three post-Soviet states that have territorial disputes: Ukraine,[482] Georgia,[483] and Moldova.[484] These three countries and Azerbaijan form the GUAM organization and support the Azerbaijani position in the format as well.[485] Serbia, with its own territorial dispute over Kosovo, also explicitly supports Azerbaijan's territorial integrity.[486][487][488]
Two other post-Soviet states, Kazakhstan[489] and Belarus[490] tacitly support Azerbaijan's position, especially within the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) and the CSTO, despite nominal alliance with Armenia.[491]
Both Palestine[492] andIsrael[493][494] have voiced support for Azerbaijan.