ArmInfo.Azerbaijan's demand to organize the traffic connecting Artsakh with Armenia through a different route instead of the Lachin corridor is not legitimate. A similar position is shared by the Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia Armen Grigoryan.
Thus, in an interview with "Armenpress", Grigoryan, reacting to the statement of the President of Artsakh at an enlarged meeting of the Security Council that Azerbaijan, through the command of the Russian peacekeeping forces, submitted its demand to organize communication with Armenia along a different route, recalled that, "Point 6th of the 2020 trilateral statement of the Armenian Prime Minister, the Russian President and the President of Azerbaijan, which defines issues relating to the creation and activity of the Lachin corridor connecting Nagorno Karabakh with Armenia, says the following: "The Parties (Armenia, Russia and Azerbaijan) have agreed that a plan for the construction of a new route along the Lachin corridor shall be determined within the next three years, providing communication between Nagorno Karabakh and Armenia, with the subsequent redeployment of Russian peacekeeping troops to protect this route". During this period, of course, some work has been done on this direction, but as of this moment there is no agreed plan. In any case, Armenia has not approved any plan, therefore, Azerbaijan's demand is not legitimate," he stated.
Grigoryan stated that, indeed, Armenia has already begun the construction of its section, but one should not forget about the plan to build a new route. "Yes, that construction has already started, but notice that the trilateral statement mentions about the plan for the construction of a new route. No such agreed upon plan exists. The Republic of Armenia has already proposed to agree over and sign the plan in a trilateral format and move forward with an agreed schedule and roadmap. This is what is envisaged by the 2020 November 9 trilateral statement," he concluded.