Tuesday, June 21 2022 14:11

ArmInfo. With the support of the West and Iran, Armenia managed to make adjustments to the "corridor" logic promoted by Azerbaijan since the signing of the tripartite  statement of November 9, 2020. A similar opinion was expressed to  ArmInfo by head of chairman of the "Free Citizen" Civic Initiatives  Support Centre, political analyst Hovsep Khurshudyan.

"Initially, I was convinced that Russia, let's say, was not at all  against this logic, in fact promising Aliyev a green corridor through  the territory of Armenia. However, it is already clear that the  "simplified regime" of land communication between Azerbaijan and  Nakhichevan, the already agreed railway communications between  Armenia and Azerbaijan, the finalization of other issues of this  case, without any doubt, provides for the recognition of Armenian  sovereignty. And there are no other interpretations here and cannot  be," he stressed.

In the analyst's opinion, the change of approaches from corridor to  sovereign ones indicates that the Russian Federation is far from  succeeding in everything that it initially plans to implement in the  South Caucasus. The reason for this is the interests, respectively,  the position of the EU and Iran. Meanwhile, from the very beginning,  it was in Moscow's interests to provide Azerbaijan with a corridor  through Armenia, which would be under its full border control. In  accordance with the same statement of November 9th.

According to his estimates, initially the Armenian customs control on  the territory of the "corridor" was not envisaged at all. And  Azerbaijani vehicles were supposed to move through the territory of  Armenia exclusively accompanied by Russian border guards. However,  everything changed with unequivocal statements by the US, the EU and  the Russian Federation itself, according to which the deblockade of  communications would take place, taking into account the sovereignty  of the participating states.  "It is clear that Azerbaijan and the  Russian Federation do not like all this. But these are the new  geopolitical realities. Since the fall of 2020, much has changed.  Including in our region.  And the undisguised interest of the West  and Iran in the Syunik region of Armenia is evidenced by the at least  regular visits of EU ambassadors and US ambassadors there. Moreover,  Iran opens a consulate in Meghri. So the situation has already  changed and continues to change further," the analyst concluded.