ArmInfo. As part of U.S. Embassy's Export Control and Border Security (EXBS) program, a team from U.S.-based S2 Global Corporation met with Chairman of the State Revenue Committee Eduard Hakobyan to review the CertScanR Inspection Integration Platform being deployed in Armenia.
The S2 Global team was in Armenia for a pre-deployment visit, demonstrating how CertScan will support Armenian Customs. EXBS has allocated $3.5 million to introduce this advanced technology - strengthening border security, streamlining trade, and supporting revenue collection. CertScan will link X-ray scanners and other inspection technologies at multiple border checkpoints into a single, user-based platform, managed from a centralized Command Center in Yerevan.
The platform will advance the objectives of the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity (TRIPP) by enabling expanded regional trade and connectivity, while enhancing risk management and targeting to facilitate legitimate trade and identify shipments of concern.
As a reminder, on August 8, 2025, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed a seven-point joint "Declaration of Peace" in Washington. It provides for a joint appeal to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to terminate the OSCE Minsk Process and related structures, as well as the creation of a transport corridor through Armenian territory that will connect Azerbaijan with its Nakhichevan exclave, surrounded by Armenia, Turkey, and Iran.
On January 14, the Armenian Foreign Ministry published the framework document signed with the American side in Washington for the implementation of the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity (TRIPP). The 12-page document presents the project's main objectives and operational mechanisms.
Among other things, the document emphasizes that Armenia intends to sanction and support the establishment of the TRIPP Development Company. The company is expected to be responsible for the development of the TRIPP project, receiving an initial development right for a period of 49 years. Armenia intends to offer the United States a 74% stake in TRIPP Development Company, retaining 26%. This partnership is expected to be extended for another 50 years, with an additional ownership stake granted to the Armenian government, bringing its stake to 49%.
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