ArmInfo.Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan explained to the Italian newspaper La Repubblica whether the issue of the so-called "Zangezur corridor" part of the peace talks between Yerevan and Baku.
In particular, as the correspondent of La Repubblica noted, "when it comes to the areas that Azerbaijan controls today in Armenia and we see more and more claims of Azerbaijan to get over the control a corridor, which the call "Zangezur" corridor from Azerbaijan to Nakhichevan, is this corridor also a part of the peace talks?"
"Let's start with the following, they have no right to expect a corridor. If we are talking about the November 9, 2020 tripartite statement, the word "corridor" is used there with respect to one case, and that's the Lachin Corridor, which is not a road." Pashinyan said. To the remark that they (Baku, ed. note), however, continue to use that term, Pashinyan said that this shows the aggressiveness and illegality of Azerbaijan's policy. And when the media, following Baku, repeat the "corridor" term, they (Baku, ed. note) achieve their goal, including through the media, the prime minister added.
"When I say Lachin Corridor, I can point my figure on a paper signed by the president of Azerbaijan. And I don't even need to show it, you can search and find it within a minute. So do you or other journalists ask Azerbaijan where they got this word from, who invented that, what right they have to make such a statement or demand a corridor from Armenia? Everything starts from here," Pashinyan noted.
"If you know in Moscow, at the summit of the Eurasian Economic Union, the president of Azerbaijan made an attempt to use such a narrative, but whenever he used it, I responded and reacted to demonstrate this invented narrative aimed at justifying aggressiveness. I repeat, when I say Lachin Corridor, I have a paper to back it signed by the Azerbaijani president and myself. There is no other document in the world or history that assumes that there should be a corridor in the territory of Armenia in the logic which Azrbaijan is attempting to bring forward. The opposite it backed by a document. The lawfulness and appropriateness of this term (Lachin Corridor - edited) has been affirmed and recorded by the International Court of Justice. Azerbaijan claims there is no Nagorno Karabakh, it does not exist, but I can show a document signed by the Azerbaijani president, which states that Nagorno Karabakh exists, it has its territory and there is a line of contact, that is a perimeter. Nagorno Karabakh also has the Lachin Corridor, 5 km wide, which takes care of the communication of Nagorno Karabakh with Armenia. This is a very serious discourse, and it is very important not to use non-serious terms and vocabulary in this very important discourse," he stressed.