Very quickly, a three -party meeting by Armenia Nikola Pashinyan, president of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and US President Donald Trump should take place in Washington. Its important event could be the signing of an agreement on the construction of the Trump route in the name of international peace and prosperity – a traffic corridor, which will be held through Armenia territory. About geopolitical consequences can cause this decision Alexei Chep.
“Affects extremely important geopolitical aspects”
– Alexei Vasilievich, among experts, has the opinion that the construction of the Trumpa bridge can significantly change the balance of power in South Caucasus in general and affect Russia's position in the region in particular. Do you agree with this?
– Yes, of course, it is difficult not to agree with this idea. The new traffic corridor project involves the transfer of an American company over a 100 -year period of a 40 km area of the Zangesur corridor called, an extremely important strategic object, not only for Armenia, but also for Russia. The fact is that the trumps trumpa Mosta increased the implementation of a number of promising infrastructure projects at a time including China's proposed belt and path project, as well as North-South international traffic corridor from Russia to Iran and India. Therefore, here, of course, it is very important to understand the details of the agreement, because it affects extremely important geopolitical aspects.
– Is there any threat to deploying foreign troops or other armed teams in the territory of the corridor?
– According to today, you can evaluate on the database from open sources, on a new route, it is really planned to put armed protection – up to one thousand people. It is thought that it will be an employee of a certain private military company.
-But the fact that she will still be under the control of the United States.
– Yes of course. Strictly speaking, legally, this PMC will have to ensure the safety of logistics, the movement of goods along the new corridor. But we are aware that the presence of any military in the vicinity of the Russian border – is not private or regular – this is a certain stress factor. Moreover, there is no clear way the transit of military goods along the new corridor will be prescribed, whether it will be in all and so. But, I repeat, the main thing is that the implementation of this project does not become an obstacle to our North-South corridor. This is an important aspect.
“The only way out is to increase diplomatic work”
– According to experts, the planning agreement must suffer clear losses to Armenia itself: from losing control of an important part of the territories to worsen the relationship with Russia. In your opinion, how much are these fears, and what makes the country's leaders accept such risks?
-The agreement has appeared recently, only two to three weeks ago and, of course, no one announced any important details within the public scope. Its main beneficiaries are quite understandable – this is mostly Türkiye and the United States. But what specific companies have prepared it – so far there is no clarity, although this is the most interesting thing. At first glance – yes, of course, Armenia lost and lost a lot from the signing. Therefore, Mr. Pashinyan's position is not fully understood here, and the benefits he consider – too. I think you need to wait for at least some reliable details and make conclusions on their basis.
-Could it affect the signing of the agreement in any way?
– Do not forget that the handling of their territories and the conclusions of trade unions and strategic partnerships are an internal issue of Armenia, but to interfere with the internal problems of sovereign countries, you see, not in our practice rather than in our style. But at the same time, we certainly need to strengthen diplomatic work with Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, as the nearest partner in building the Northern Yug corridor and of course, the United States. Under this condition, our national interests should not be tolerated.