About 40 minutes, 2 agreements and 1 speech of support to the authorities of the day. This is how the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s visit was summed up.

On May 26, Armenia and the United States of America signed the framework agreement on strategic cooperation on the project “Trump’s Way for International Peace and International Prosperity”. The initialing of the document took place within the framework of the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s visit to Armenia. Within the framework of the same visit, Armenia and the United States of America signed a framework memorandum on ensuring supply in the field of extraction and processing of important minerals and rare minerals. And in the end, the US official noted that the Prime Minister of Armenia is paving the way to a “more independent future”. this, of course, can also be considered pre-election support.

International and energy issues expert Armen Manvelyan He considers Rubio’s visit a big step in support of the authorities of the day, and the signed documents as a “disgrace”.

“A shameful document in all respects. First, related to those minerals. in fact, they come and try to take all that under their control, use it only for their own purposes. If, for example, Russia signed a similar document, can you imagine what kind of noise it would be here?

America is heavily dependent on China for minerals and is now trying to provide an alternative by signing similar agreements with various countries (also Saudi Arabia signed a similar agreement). Armenia does not get anything from it. At one time, they colonized other countries with those steps.

The protocols related to TRIPP are even more shameful, because with it Azerbaijan achieved its goal. it is clear from the document that no Armenian border guard will be on that road, contrary to the fact that it is regularly mentioned about Armenian sovereignty, etc.,” he clarified, noting that the TRIPP agreement was given a higher status than the Constitution of Armenia.

Armen Manvelyan answered the question: in the case of a different government, is it possible to renegotiate and redirect those initialed and signed documents, declarations, with the assurance that it is possible, because they are not final sealed documents.

“They are mostly declarations, and we not only can, but also have to review them, and in that context the most important thing is TRIPP. we need to understand who the 3rd party is, Armenia should increase its share, at least 51 percent of the device, the desire of Azerbaijanis that they should not see an Armenian on that road should be eliminated.

By the way, false information is being spread that allegedly Chinese goods will also come and go to Europe and vice versa. Believe me, Chinese goods will never come or go that way, because first of all, it is under American control. That road will be purely to serve the political and economic goals of Turkey-Azerbaijan.” 168.amhe elaborated in the conversation with

When asked whether there is any economic opportunity for RA from TRIPP, from the point of view of diversification, in order to somehow reduce Russian dependence, the international affairs expert responded: “There is none, and, on the contrary, we are just going to replace one dependency with another.”

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