“Rubio’s visit and the signed memorandum express political support to the government

On May 26, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in Armenia for 1 hour. He signed several documents with Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan at the airport and immediately left Armenia.

One of the documents signed by Ararat Mirzoyan and Marco Rubio was the framework memorandum between the Republic of Armenia and the United States of America on supply assurance in the field of extraction and processing of important minerals and rare minerals.

As mentioned memoThe aim of the participants is to support both countries to ensure the resilience and security of critical minerals supply chains, including extraction, separation and processing in their respective territories. Participants also intend to cooperate with third parties, as appropriate, to ensure the security of supply chains and to use existing cooperation mechanisms.

Narine Kirkakosyan, co-founder of “Eco-media” network It is not clear why they attach so much importance to the signed memorandum.

“I can say that this is another bubble, like the “Trump Way”, this is also a branch of it. I am reading the memorandum posted on the official website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. First of all, it is a framework memorandum, that is, this document is about the possibility that they may sign another cooperation document. But this is still a framework memorandum between RA and the United States, it is stated that they will cooperate in the field of supply of “important materials and minerals extraction and processing, that is, they are only talking about supply, this may be related to uranium.” There is nothing new here, the phrase “because” is mentioned several times in that memorandum, as Nikol Pashinyan likes to repeat his chants, here the phrase is also repeated in the column and some sentences are written.” of 168.am Narine Kirakosyan said in a conversation with

According to him, the memorandum published on the official website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs mentions important minerals, he read it and tried to understand what kind of important minerals it is talking about, because not a single mineral is written about. It is presented only about the delivery, which will be “Trump’s way”.

“Here it becomes clear that Armenia can become a road “underfoot” with this document.

On the other hand, if you look back at the history of Armenia over the centuries, Armenia has always been a “silk road”, and if it was and this is another memorandum connecting it with Asia, we can say that now it will become a transit route for minerals, but what minerals are we talking about, it is not clear: uranium, molybdenum, we don’t know.

There is also talk about the recycling and reproduction of the waste, which could be the uranium used by the nuclear power plant. According to them, the United States can build modular nuclear power plants for us and waste processing can be connected with it. However, we still do not have those small modular nuclear power plants all over the world, we have not even passed the licensing. Now China is testing a small nuclear power plant, and other countries, France, the United States, are still in the working phase to get a license.

It is not by chance that I do not say everything in scientific language, I want it to be clear for people that this is another bubble document. If the government in RA changes, the next government will come and say: “Brother, davai dosvidanie”, we are not signing, this does not mean that we are worsening our relations with the United States”, added Narine Kairakosyan.

Our interlocutor also emphasized that there is nothing about Amulsar in this document.

“Rubio’s visit here and the signed memorandum only express political support to the authorities of the day.

One more thing: American politics has nothing to do with environmental protection, they do not join any international convention, they follow their own policy. Whether it is good or bad, this is their problem, but their only problem here is that what is important is good for their country, other people’s fathers be damned.

For example, they don’t think that by bombing neighboring Iran, what environmental damage they cause. Or they come, they open a gold mine in Jermuk, this is important for them, not to extract gold, but to have a presence here and push Russia out. We also had a mine in Sotku, they took it and gave it to the enemy, I think the British are using it now, or the other mines in Artsakh.

I think this is another memorandum of the conflict of interests of different big countries, which does not speak to the policies of China, Iran, Russia, and the EU. And it’s another document with which this government drags us into geopolitical conflicts,” emphasized Narine Kirakosyan.

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