Russian Federal Security May Only Be Vested To Monitor Zangezur Corridor - Armenian PM
Date
10/12/2024 7:07:44 AM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 12. The Russian
Federal Security Service (FSS) can only be handed the reins for
keeping an eye on the Zangezur corridor, Trend reports via Armenian
media, which aired Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's
utterance during the conference "Crossroads of the World: Uniting
Security and Democracy" in Yerevan today.
He quoted Point 9 of the trilateral statement signed between
Azerbaijan, Russia, and Armenia on November 10, 2020, following the
Second Karabakh War, highlighting the point's sentence: "The Border
Guard Service of the Russian Federal Security Service shall be
responsible for overseeing the transport connections.".
"What this means is explained in the decree of the President of
Russia dated December 10, 2020. This means that representatives of
Russia may be granted some monitoring function to see how Armenia
fulfills its obligations," Pashinyan explained.
Additionally, he emphasized that "none of the statement points
imply any restriction on Armenia's sovereign rights".
Previously, Maria Zakharova, spokesperson for the Russian
Foreign Ministry, said that much of the work to open communications
has "stalled" due to Armenia's stance on border control issues.
"Thus, Armenia has refused to allow the Russian Federal Security
Service to manage transport communications through the Zangezur
corridor and has effectively frozen its participation in the
working group,” Zakharova noted.
Besides, as the representative of the President of Azerbaijan
for Special Assignments Elchin Amirbayov said, the opening of the
Zangezur corridor will serve as a confidence-building measure
between Azerbaijan and Armenia.
“If we are talking about long-term, sustainable, and
irreversible peace, the opening of the Zangezur transport link is
one of those immediate results of peace that can be to the benefit
not only of Azerbaijan but even more to the benefit of Armenia,"
Amirbayov explained.
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