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.