No private company to ensure security of Armenia-Azerbaijan transport  comunications - NA speaker 

ArmInfo.The Armenian authorities are discussing a proposal to delegate certain powers to  private companies for future transport communications with Azerbaijan. This was stated by the Speaker of the National Assembly Alen Simonyan, touching upon the concerns of the Iranian side. 

Tehran is against control of communications in Syunik by  representatives of third countries, the Iranian Ambassador to Armenia  Mehdi Sobhani recently told journalists, commenting on this  possibility.  According to the Iranian ambassador, in accordance with  the statement of the Armenian authorities, control at the border  points will be carried out by Armenian authorized bodies.

, Sobhani said. He noted that  the Armenian authorities are also talking about this - everything  will be within the framework of Armenian sovereignty. Thus, we are  not talking about handing over the issue of ensuring security to some  international company. , Sobhani said.

,  Alen Simonyan said at a briefing in parliament on September 9.

Despite the fact that no decision has been made on the issue yet, the  NA speaker assured that a private company will not be entrusted with  ensuring the security of communications. Earlier, political scientist  Sergei Melkonyan reported that during the last meeting at the level  of foreign ministers, Armenia and Azerbaijan discussed the  possibility of transferring control over future communications to an  international private security company. 

On September 4, Deputy Foreign Minister Mnatsakan Safaryan did not  rule out the possibility of delegating functions to ensure the  security of future transport communications with Azerbaijan to  private companies.  According to him, the company will service  communications from a security point of view. At the same time, the  deputy head of the Foreign Ministry assured that granting the right  to protect communications to a private security company does not  violate the principle of sovereignty of the country.   project, although there is no direct connection>, - concluded  Safaryan, adding that there is not even a preliminary agreement on  this.