Aware of threat by two powerful armies, we allow ourselves to be  deceived by tales about reciprocity - Edmon Marukyan 

ArmInfo.  "Knowing full well that we are under constant gunfire from two powerful armies, we allow ourselves to be deceived by telling tales of reciprocity," wrote Edmon Marukyan, leader of the Bright Armenia party, on his Facebook  page, speaking about the documents signed in Washington.

In particular, the politician pointed to the seventh article of the  "Declaration of Peace", which states that the parties will not deploy  armed forces of third parties along their common border. Before the  delimitation of the common border and subsequent demarcation, the  parties will implement mutually agreed measures to strengthen  security and trust, including in the military sphere, in order to  ensure security and stability in the border areas.

"I have repeatedly referred to this article, since it was announced  that the RA authorities also made this concession and included this  clause in the text of the agreement. Speaking on this topic, I have  always tried to explain to our compatriots that if, years later, our  grandchildren or great-grandchildren decide to place a military base  of any state in the border areas of our country, they will not be  able to do so, since Article 7 of the Peace Agreement excludes this.  In response, they said: - Yes, but this requirement will be applied  reciprocally. I have always emphasized and continue to insist that  Azerbaijan does not have such a problem. It has a large population, a  powerful army, which is synchronized with the Turkish army. There is  another important circumstance that should not be forgotten: the  million-strong army of Azerbaijan's ally, Turkey, is only 40  kilometers away from us. In other words, knowing full well that we  are under the constant sights of two powerful armies, we allow  ourselves to be deceived by telling tales of reciprocity," the leader  of the Enlightened Armenia party noted.

On August 8, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani  President Ilham Aliyev signed a joint "Declaration of Peace" in  Washington. It provides for a joint appeal to the Organization for  Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to terminate the OSCE Minsk  process and related structures, as well as the creation of a  transport corridor through Armenian territory that will connect  Azerbaijan with its Nakhchivan exclave. The TRIPP (Trump Route for  International Peace and Prosperity) project, a 42-km road in southern  Armenia that will hand over control of the road to the United States  for 99 years, according to experts, is capable of significantly  changing the geopolitical situation in the South Caucasus.  On the  same day, the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan initialed a  peace agreement, which consists of 17 articles. The preamble of the  document states that the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of  Azerbaijan, recognizing the urgent need to establish a just,  comprehensive and lasting peace in the region, striving to promote  the achievement of this goal through the establishment of interstate  relations, guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the  Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly  Relations and Cooperation among States in accordance with the Charter  of the United Nations (1970), the Final Act of the Helsinki  Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (1975) and the  Almaty Declaration of December 21, 1991, and striving to develop  relations based on the norms and principles enshrined in the said  documents, expressing mutual will to establish good-neighborly  relations among themselves, agreed to establish peace and interstate  relations.