Iranian diplomat: Iran, Armenia and Georgia have a brilliant  opportunity to implement a number of trilateral projects

ArmInfo. Armenian Ambassador to Georgia Ruben Sadoyan during the meeting with his Iranian counterpart Seyed Javad Kavamshahid discussed the Armenian-Iranian  economic relations.

As the press service of the Armenian Embassy in Georgia told ArmInfo,  the parties agreed at the beginning of the meeting that the relations  between Armenia and Iran are at a sufficiently high level and are  intertwined with many threads.

Speaking about economic cooperation, Sadoyan touched upon the  opportunities of Armenia as a transit country, and stressed that  official Yerevan is the only member of the Eurasian Economic Union  (EAP), which has land communication with friendly Iran and can become  a gateway for IRI in terms of access to the countries of the EAEC,  CIS and the EU.

In this context, the interlocutors stressed the importance of the  North-South road corridor as the shortest transit route connecting  the ports of the Persian Gulf and the Black Sea.  The Iranian  Ambassador to Georgia noted that Tehran, Yerevan and Tbilisi have a  brilliant opportunity to implement a number of tripartite projects in  such areas as transport, energy and business. According to him, there  are no obstacles on this issue. The sides stated that the  Iran-Armenia-Georgia corridor could become a new and important bridge  linking Europe and Asia.

In this regard, Sadoyan stressed the importance of the interaction of  companies and management structures operating in the territory of the  free economic zone (FEZ) "Meghri" and FEZ "Araz." The interlocutor  also touched on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Sadoyan stated that  the efforts of Armenia and the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group are  constantly confronted with the opposition of Azerbaijan.  According  to him, a vivid example of this, the last incident in Artsakh, when  an Armenian soldier died from the bullet of an Azerbaijani sniper. 

The Ambassador stressed that Armenia highly appreciates the balanced  position of Iran on an exclusively peaceful settlement of the  Karabakh conflict on the basis of the norms of international law.  Sadoyan also inquired about the internal processes in Iran and  stressed the importance that the friendly IRI has for Armenia.