Media: Armenian PM keen to “push Russia out of South Caucasus”

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has said he intends to "deprive Russia of the ability to control communications between Türkiye and Azerbaijan".

At the third summit of the European Political Community to be held in the Spanish city of Granada on October 5, Pashinyan intends to raise the issue of cancelling point No. 9 of the Trilateral Statement of the leaders of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan of 9 November 2020, which marked the end of the 2020 Second Garabagh War,  Caliber.Az reports, citing the Hraparak newspaper.

According to this clause, “Armenia guarantees the safety of transport communications (through its territory) between the western regions of Azerbaijan and the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic (Azerbaijan) to organize the unhindered movement of citizens, vehicles and cargo in both directions. Control over transport communications is carried out by the Border Service of the FSB of Russia.”

As the newspaper notes, in this way, Prime Minister Pashinyan intends to "deprive Russia of the opportunity to control the communications between Türkiye and Azerbaijan", and in fact "to push Russia out of the South Caucasus".

"The adventure of Nikol Pashinyan and his group may have serious consequences for the independence and sovereignty of Armenia and Armenians..., because there are forecasts that Russia will not withdraw from the region so easily, and point 9 will be implemented by force, possibly even by war," the newspaper notes.