This potential corridor would cross the Armenian southern province of the Syunik and connect Azerbaijan to Nakhitchevan, an Azerbaijani enclave that borders Turkey, ally of Bakou, over 32 km.
A possible advance in negotiations around a peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan? Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pachinian said that the United States had proposed to manage the Zanguezour transport corridor which would link most of Azerbaijan to an Azerbaijani enclave – Nakhitchevan – via Armenian territory, the Armenpress news agency reported on Wednesday.
This potential corridor would cross the Armenian southern province of the Syunik and connect Azerbaijan to Nakhitchevan, an Azerbaijani enclave that borders Turkey, ally of Bakou, over 32 km. Azerbaijan does not want the corridor to be controlled only by Armenia, because it fears that Erevan will not revoke access too easily.
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During a press conference Tuesday, July 16, Nikol Pachinian answered the question of whether Armenia had received a specific Washington proposal concerning the corridor in question: “Yes, we have received proposals from the United States”reported the national press agency Armenpress.
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The transit bond is one of the numerous stumbling blocks of a peace agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia, neighbors in the Southern Caucasus region which have engaged in a series of wars since the late 1980s and which remain rivals jurors. The two countries declared in March that they had finalized a draft peace agreement, but the date of signature remains uncertain.
Nikol Pachinian’s comments intervened a few days after the United States Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack said Washington had offered to take charge of the planned transit corridor. “They argue for 32 kilometers of road, but it is not a joke. It’s been ten years since it lasts ”Tom Barrack told journalists in New York last Friday, according to a statement from the State Department.
“What is happening is that America happens and says:” Okay, we take control. Give us the 32 kilometers of road on the basis of a hundred years lease, and you can share them all “”he continued. The administration of Donald Trump seeks to intervene to participate in the resolution of the conflict and the dead end in which the two countries of the Caucasus are located. In early July, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio expressed hope for the conclusion of a rapid peace agreement between Baku and Yerevan.
