Thursday, May 25 2023 23:11

ArmInfo.As for economic dynamics, everything is at least not bad in the Eurasian Economic Union,  Armenia's Premier Nikol Pashinyan stated at his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.  "As for economic dynamics, you are right: everything is at least not bad in the Eurasian Economic Union.

"In the regional sense, of course, we have a rather tense situation  in Nagorno-Karabakh, in the Lachin Corridor, we talked about that  many times today. Unfortunately, despite the trilateral declaration  of November 9, 2020, Azerbaijan has illegally blocked the Lachin  Corridor, due to which Nagorno-Karabakh has appeared in a  humanitarian crisis. You know that the supply of natural gas and  electricity to Nagorno Karabakh has also been stopped, blocked by  Azerbaijan, which further aggravates the humanitarian situation in  Nagorno Karabakh. The supply of food and goods to Nagorno Karabakh  has become complicated. Of course, the Russian peacekeepers support  in this issue, but unfortunately, as I said, the blocking of the  Lachin corridor took place in the presence of the Russian  peacekeepers.

"Today we discussed the issues related to the unblocking of regional  communications in a working mode. I would like to reaffirm once again  that Armenia is really interested in this, we are ready to start  unblocking all transport and economic links and communications based  on the sovereignty and jurisdiction of our country. I want to confirm  this position once again. I would like to confirm that we are ready,  both border services and customs services are ready to ensure the  normal passage of all means of transport, railways through the  territory of Armenia.

"We expect that the Azerbaijani railway will also be open for the  transportation of goods from the Republic of Armenia through  Nakhichevan, the Republic of Azerbaijan, for example, to the Russian  Federation, the Islamic Republic of Iran. We expect this issue to be  resolved on a parity basis, as I said, based on the sovereignty and  jurisdiction of the countries," Mr Pashinyan said. 

In his turn, President Putin said:

"You know our position regarding our trilateral declaration,  regarding the Lachin Corridor. We have never changed our position on  this matter. And you know that in our discussions with our Armenian  friends and with Azerbaijan, we have always been faithful and we are  faithful to this very position now. Everything should be in  accordance with the spirit and letter of our trilateral declaration.  Our position here has not changed.

"Regarding the possible construction of transport routes,  communications, both railways and highways, our position on  unblocking is also unchanged. And now, during the bilateral contact  with the Azerbaijani delegation, we said about this.

"But it should be noted that the Azerbaijani side also confirms that  Azerbaijan does not have any changes in this matter, they recognize  without any exception the full sovereignty of Armenia over this area,  and sort of double, triple interpretations of all this, related to  the possible unblocking of transport communication, are groundless.

"However, there are issues, you just mentioned them, I think they are  related to the terminology. I think we can talk about this in more  detail."