The Russian border troops will stand on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, then there will be demarcation and delimitation, after which the border troops of Armenia and Azerbaijan will stand on the border. ” According to Armenian media, the secretary of the Armenian Council of Armenia Armen Grigoryan was reported in an interview with Armenian public television.
The head of the Armenian Security Council noted that if Armenia “does not have enough own forces, Russian troops will stand in these places. It is definitively decided that the Russian border guards will stand at the border.”
We note that earlier the Armenian edition of Radio Liberty reported that the official Yerevan and Moscow began negotiations on the expansion of the Russian military base in Armenia, for this purpose, the Armenian delegation was sent to the Russian capital, consisting of high-ranking representatives of the Ministry of Defense, Foreign Ministry, the Ministry of Territorial Management and infrastructures, General Staff Sun, Armenian-Russian United States, as well as the Cadastre Committee.
Also, the publication reminds that on May 27 at a meeting of the Armenian government, it was decided to allocate a land plot with a total area of about 3.5 hectares in the Syunik region (Zangezur) with the right to free use of the border management of the Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia posted in Armenia. In the use of Russian border guards, 7 land plots are transferred according to the rationale of the Government of Armenia, after a tripartite statement of November 9, 2020, the southeastern borders of Armenia should be strengthened, for which the necessary land plots are highlighted.