It is not that we have forgotten the trilateral statement of November 9, 2020, or trilateral statements in general. We haven't forgotten. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs also expressed Armenia’s position on that topic. Our position on all the merits or demerits of the trilateral statement of November 9, all the points fulfilled or largely unfulfilled, is known. I don't quite understand the calls to make sudden moves.
Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced this at today's press conference, answering the question: why does Russia constantly remember the trilateral statement of November 9, and is it not time to withdraw Armenia's signature?
"I don't understand well the calls to make drastic moves. Why should we remove the signature: don’t we fulfill any of our obligations or do we avoid or do not want to fulfill? No, there is no such thing," said the Prime Minister, emphasizing that all such comments are wrong.
"What is written in the ‘Crossroads of Peace’ fully corresponds to the letter and the spirit of the trilateral statement of November 9. There is no place, no paper, where Armenia has signed, and in which it is written that Armenia should not only lose its sovereignty over any of its territories, but also degrade it in any way. There is no such thing. The only subject of the point 9 of the trilateral statement of November 9, the passage of communications through the territory of the Republic of Armenia, from which jurisdiction and action derives, is the Republic of Armenia," responded the Prime Minister.
According to him, we can talk about unfulfilled obligations, for example, prisoners, hostages, other detained persons, we can talk about whether the Russian peacekeeping contingent in Nagorno-Karabakh fulfilled its mandate, but he sees no reason for Armenia to take back its the signature under the November 9 document.
“Why should it take it back to prove what? … that we are giving up anything? We have not given up on anything and have evidence of any commitment. Unfortunately, other party or parties of the trilateral statement have denied their commitment," the Prime Minister emphasized.
