Friday, September 6 2024 16:49

ArmInfo. Armenia justifies its failure to implement point 9 of the trilateral statement of November  9, 2020 by the failure of the other two parties to the statement to fulfill their obligations. This was stated by the head of the parliamentary Committee on Defense and Security, MP of the Civil Contract faction Andranik Kocharyan on the air of PTA, answering the question of why Yerevan does not withdraw its signature from this  statement if it believes that many points of the document remain on paper. 

Point 9 of the statement reads: <All economic and transport links in  the region will be unblocked. The Republic of Armenia guarantees the  security of transport links between the western regions of the  Republic of Azerbaijan and the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic in  order to organize the unimpeded movement of citizens, vehicles and  goods in both directions. Control over transport links is carried out  by the Border Service of the FSB of Russia. By agreement of the  Parties, the construction of new transport communications will be  ensured, linking the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic with the western  regions of Azerbaijan>. At present, Yerevan does not agree that  control over communications will be entrusted to the FSB of the  Russian Federation.

"The document has three sides and none of the sides aims to withdraw  from it. The key is what allows us to be a party to the agreement or  not to be," he said.

To the clarifying question of whether Yerevan is ready to implement  point 9 if the other sides implement the remaining points of the  statement, Kocharyan noted: <the situation is different>. <We are  saying, let's see if this document gives the Armenians of Artsakh the  opportunity to return. Azerbaijan: < > As much as this agreement is  frozen for us, it is frozen for them>, the parliamentarian added.

As for Moscow's statement that ensuring transport links between  Azerbaijan and Nakhichevan does not imply the principle of  extraterritoriality, and delegating control powers does not mean  violating the sovereignty of the Republic of Armenia, since the same  Russian border troops are on the Armenian-Iranian and  Armenian-Turkish borders, then, according to Kocharyan, at this stage  the Armenian authorities do not consider it expedient to entrust  border control to another country.

In response to the remark that at one time our own interpretation of  the negotiation situation on Nagorno- Karabakh "came back to bite  us", and whether the current one - our own idea of implementing the  trilateral statement - will not lead to similar consequences, the  pro-government deputy stated that "if our ideas coincided (on  implementing point 9), it would become a reality". Nevertheless,  according to Kocharyan, this statement will be in effect as long as  it has the prospect of achieving peace in the region.