There was an attempt to derail the November 9 statement, and now TRIPP is being offered in its place: Beniamin Matevosyan

After the trilateral statement of November 9, 2020 was signed, the Armenian authorities took a number of steps to derail its implementation in practice, political scientist Beniamin Matevosyan said at Alpha Media Centre during the panel discussion “Deliberate pivot: Armenia’s future in the CSTO and the fate of the November 9 agreement.”

According to him, the Armenian authorities tried to present Point 9 of the November 9 statement as a provision granting a corridor through Armenian territory, and are now promoting the TRIPP project as an alternative to the document.

“None of the parties has withdrawn its signature to this day, as Maria Zakharova, a spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, said just the other day. TRIPP is now being presented as an alternative to Point 9 of the November 9 document, and at the level of propaganda it is claimed that it is not a corridor,” he said.