Opinion: The provision of airspace by Armenia to the enemy today is  the worst possible signal to Iran

ArmInfo. The provision of airspace by Armenia to the enemy today is the worst possible signal to Iran. This is the opinion of Vardan Voskanyan, head of the  Department of Iranian Studies, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Yerevan  State University (YSU).

"The provision of airspace by Armenia to an enemy aircraft exactly  today and  exactly in this direction is the worst possible signal  that could be sent to Iran," Voskanyan said.

In turn,  Executive Director of the International Center for Human  Development, Adviser to the President of Armenia Tevan Poghosyan,  responding to the message about the provision of an air corridor to  Azerbaijan, in particular said: "Just one question: If the  Azerbaijani airspace was never closed to the civil aviation of  Armenia, then what was the problem then, that not a single civilian  aircraft had ever recovered to Artsakh during all this time? Did the  Republic of Artsakh banned or Azerbaijan in the past did not consider  Nagorno-Karabakh its own and did not take responsibility? Or if so,  why are the planes not flying now, the Russian peacekeepers prohibit,  or is there a different reality outside the village of Teg? "

At the same time, Poghosyan was outraged by attempts to present  Azerbaijan to the Armenian society in a good light, recalling the  statement of President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, made two days ago,  where the latter promised to break the heads of all Armenians. "Whose  interests serve these statements," asked Poghosyan.

It should be noted that today the media in Armenia were flooded with  information that the country's authorities allowed AZAL to use the  country's airspace. This information was replicated against the  background of Iran closing its sky for the Azerbaijani Air Force and  caused an ambiguous reaction.  These actions of the Armenian  authorities were criticized by both opposition MPs and the general  public.  Later, the Civil Aviation Committee (CAC) of Armenia made a  report on the implementation of the airspace of Armenia by the  Azerbaijani airline AZAL from today for the implementation of  passenger flights from Baku to Nakhichevan.  The Committee confirmed  that on October 6 this year, the Baku-Nakhijevan flight was carried  out over the airspace of the Republic of Armenia. "The use of the  airspace by civil aircraft of both the Republic of Armenia and  Azerbaijan was not limited, except for the period of the 44-day war.  The flights on this route were carried out continuously until  November 8, 2014, after which the Azerbaijani side, on its own  initiative, stopped using the airspace of the Republic of Armenia.  All this time, flights from the Zvartnots airport through the  airspace of Azerbaijan to other countries continue, as well as in the  opposite direction, " the message says.  

It was also added that a permit for transit flights is not issued by  the aviation authorities of Armenia, since according to the  established procedures, permission for transit flights by civilian  vessels is not required.  "The right to choose air routes remains  with the operators of the aircraft," the aviation department said in  a statement.  

To note, in the course of Azerbaijan's large-scale military  aggression against Nagorno-Karabakh, Baku used civilian ships to  transport terrorists and mercenaries from Nakhichevan to the conflict  zone.