Georgian analyst: The agenda between Armenia and Georgia is mainly  about the economy

ArmInfo. The current agenda between Armenia and Georgia is mainly about the economy. I think that it was precisely the economic issues that were discussed between our leaders in Tbilisi. Gela Vasadze, senior analyst at the Georgian  Strategic Analysis Center (GSAC), expressed this opinion to ArmInfo,  commenting on the official visit of the Armenian Prime Minister to  Georgia.

During an official visit to Georgia on September 8, Armenian Prime  Minister Nikol Pashinyan and his Georgian counterpart Irakli  Garibashvili discussed directions for further work on the creation of  the Persian Gulf - Black Sea transport corridor, including in  cooperation with Iran, Bulgaria and Greece. Among other projects, the  prospects for joint initiatives in the field of transport, energy and  high technologies were noted. It was noted that these projects will  be discussed at a meeting of the Armenian-Georgian intergovernmental  commission, which will be held at the end of the year in Tbilisi. 

"In this light, I would like to especially emphasize the minimum  volume of political participation of Georgia in regional processes.  Clearly, all this has its reasons. First of all, the presence of a  certain number of serious enough mediators in solving the current  problems between Yerevan and Baku. All these states have for this  significantly larger resource than Georgia. It's another matter that  all this mediation clearly does not lead to positive consequences for  both Armenia and Azerbaijan," he stressed.

Thus, Vasadze considers the discussion of current political issues by  Pashinyan and Garibashvili more likely the background of the main  agenda of the Armenian prime minister's trip to Tbilisi. In his  opinion, the talks in Tbilisi focused more on transport and energy  communications. Projects capable of improving the economic connection  between the north and south of the region.  

"I think that such a discussion could well be fruitful, given  Georgia's readiness to open a railway communication through its  territory from Armenia to Azerbaijan and from there to Russia. As far  as I know, Yerevan has already addressed this proposal to Moscow and  Baku within the framework of the tripartite commission of deputy  prime ministers. And there are no problems on the part of Tbilisi in  this issue, "the analyst noted.  

Vasadze considers the project to modernize the North-South automobile  corridor to be another major transport and logistics area of the  common economic agenda of Tbilisi and Yerevan. In his opinion, the  two prime ministers also devoted a lot of time to discussing the  implementation of the project to create this corridor through the  territory of Armenia and Georgia from Russia to Iran.