Is Yerevan ready to implement point 9 if the other parties implement  the remaining points of the trilateral statement?

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: . 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: . 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.