Mher Grigoryan to visit Moscow: he avoided answering question whether he excludes that Artsakh may be part of Azerbaijan

ARMINFO
Armenia – June 3 2022
Naira Badalian

ArmInfo. The tripartite commission on unblocking transport and economic communications will meet on June 3 in Moscow. Today, June 2, Armenian co-chairman of the commission on delimitation and security of the borders between the RA and the AR, Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan, in an interview with  journalists, avoided answering the question whether he excludes that  Artsakh may be part of Azerbaijan in any status.

" Such issues are not discussed in these negotiations at all," he  said. 

Earlier, Mher Grigoryan stated that the agenda of the meeting  includes issues related to the implementation of the agreements set  out in paragraph 9 of the tripartite statement of the leaders of  Armenia, Russia and Azerbaijan dated November 9, 2020 and the  statement dated January 11, 2021.  On January 11, 2021, during a  meeting of the leaders of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, an  agreement was reached in Moscow to unblock regional communications.   To this end, the parties decided to establish a working group at the  level of vice-premiers of the three countries, which will focus on  establishing transport and economic ties in the region. On May 18  this year, during the briefing, official representative of the  Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that the Russian side  highly appreciates the activities of the tripartite working group of  deputy prime ministers to unblock transport and economic ties in the  South Caucasus.  The last time the working group met was in December  2021.  As regards the border delimitation commission chaired by the  vice-premiers of Armenia and Azerbaijan, the first meeting of the  body was held on May 24 at the Armenian-Azerbaijani border which  followed the meeting of the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan, which  was mediated by the head of the European Council, Charles Michel, in  Brussels on May 22. On May 25, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey  Rudenko announced that the next meeting would take place next week in  Moscow.