Tuesday, May 30 2023 19:09

ArmInfo.Armenia will fully retain sovereignty over the roads passing through its territory. On  May 30, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia, co-chair of the trilateral working group on unblocking transport communications in the region Mher Grigoryan told reporters.

According to him, within the framework of this principle, Armenia has  always been ready to negotiate, and is conducting for the sake of  unblocking communications, which will ultimately be of great  importance for the country.

Grigoryan noted that currently there is no issue of involving  international organizations to control the country's checkpoints on  the agenda of the negotiations."There were similar ideas, but there  are no developed formats for their implementation on the agenda," the  Deputy Prime Minister noted.

Speaking about the dispute that arose during the meeting of the  Supreme Eurasian Economic Union between the Prime Minister of the  Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan and the President of Azerbaijan  Ilham Aliyev regarding the so-called "Zangezur corridor", Grigoryan  noted that the use of such a wording by the opposite side pursues  completely different goals and desires. <We have repeatedly stated  that this is practically impossible. We are ready to discuss the  issue of unblocking transport communications, but if we are talking  about "special regime" corridors, then we do not discuss it, for us  it is a "red" line," the Deputy Prime Minister said, expressing hope  that there will be no discussion about it at the upcoming meeting of  the co-chairs in Moscow.

Meanwhile, touching upon the issue of restoring the  Armenia-Nakhichevan-Azerbaijan railway communication, the deputy  premier noted that under the best scenario, this process would take  two to three years. "If you look at the railway infrastructure in the  region, you will see that the restoration of separate sections will  allow us to get a serious logistics solution at the regional level,"  he said.  During the meeting of the Supreme Economic Council of the  EAEU, the President of Russia suggested that the co-chairs of the  working group meet next Thursday in Moscow to discuss the issue of  unblocking transport communications in the region.