Politician: Prospects for a corridor through Syunik are caused by the  global confrontation between the United States and China

ArmInfo.At this stage, the security of Armenia is ensured by the collective West, in general, and the United States, in particular. A similar opinion was expressed  to ArmInfo by Varuzhan Avetisyan, a member of the Political Council  of the "National Democratic Pole".

 "It is important to emphasize that this is done, by and large, even without demanding the opinion of Armenia itself. And if not the West, we would have already lost  Syunik. Our neighbors and not only have already broken through our  territory and took control of a corridor or even corridors , and the  enemy would penetrate even deeper into the territory of Armenia in  Ararat, Gegharkunik and Tavush. It is very difficult to predict how  much the West will provide this security. Especially against the  background of the recent withdrawal of the US and allies from  Afghanistan, "he said.

The politician stressed that almost everything in the world today is  being formed in the context of global rivalry and confrontation  between the United States and China. The idea of a corridor through  the territory of the Armenian Syunik is not an exception. According  to Avetisyan, the east-west corridor is part of Beijing's Eurasian  Silk Road Initiative. This global project, in his opinion, will  create a huge region with a focus on China.

In this light, the politician is convinced that it is precisely the  contradiction of such plans of China with the interests and goals of  the United States that determines Washington's desire to oppose them.  Including through the creation of a North-South axis, part of which  is planned to pass through Iran, Armenia and Georgia. Avetisyan is  convinced that the US has a desire to make the vertical rather than  the horizontal corridor through Armenia the "working'' one .

Commenting on the steps taken by the Armenian authorities towards  ensuring the country's security, the politician stressed that a  necessary precondition for this is the existence of the state itself.  Avetisyan is convinced that the latter presupposes the formation of  priorities, including the national government and allied relations of  Armenia with the West, in general, and the United States and France,  in particular.

Negatively characterizing the existing relations of Armenia with the  Russian Federation, the politician believes that it is futile to link  the future with today's Russia. First of all, due to Moscow's desire  to bring the "Lavrov plan" to a victorious end in the form of the  final destruction and absorption of the Armenian statehood by Russia  and Turkey. At the same time, Moscow's rejection of such plans and  the revision of the current Russian policy towards Armenia, according  to his forecasts, can significantly change the prospects for  relations between Moscow and Yerevan for the better.