Wednesday, October 25 2023 17:08

ArmInfo. Yerevan will send its concept of the "Crossroads of the Peace" in the South Caucasus to international partners.

"Yerevan is preparing to publish a brochure in English titled  "Crossroads of the Peace," which reflects Armenia's approaches  regarding the opening of regional communications and the concept of  the "Crossroads of the Peace" project, RA Prime Minister Nikol  Pashinyan said on October 25 in parliament during government hour.

As the prime minister explained, the previously proposed "Armenian  Crossroads" project was slightly reformatted. Yerevan will wait for  the reaction of international partners to the new option for opening  regional communications.  According to him, the brochure will soon  become available to the general public.  On October 17, Prime  Minister Nikol Pashinyan, at a plenary meeting of the European  Parliament in Strasbourg, announced his readiness to restore the  Meghri railway, which will connect not only Armenia with Azerbaijan,  but also the southern regions of Armenia  with the northwestern,  southwestern regions of Azerbaijan with  Nakhijevan, then Armenia  with Turkey, Azerbaijan with Turkey,  Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia,  Iran, East with West, from the Caspian  Sea to the Mediterranean Sea.  In Armenia, this project is called the "Armenian Crossroads", but I  think that the time has come to rebrand  this project, calling it  "Peace Crossroads". By the same logic, we  are ready to open road  routes," said the head of the Armenian Cabinet  of Ministers.

Early last year, at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers, Pashinyan  said that as a result of discussing the topic of opening regional  communications, the North-South project was reorganized into the  North-South, East-West project. The Armenian Prime Minister expressed  hope that this project will be implemented quickly. "This means that  one of the branches of this road, I mean "North-South, East-West",  or, in short, one of the branches of the "Armenian Crossroads" will  run from the Republic of Armenia to the Islamic Republic of Iran, the  other branch will be Azerbaijan-Armenia, and later the  Nakhijevan-Turkey branch will follow. We consider this project in  this general context. We hope that by the end of the year we will  have a construction company that will carry out these works. The  project part of the "East-West" has not been implemented, but in  process, in the context of reaching political agreements, we will  very quickly implement this part," said the Prime Minister of  Armenia.