Ankara keep on seeking extraterritorial corridor via Armenia`s Syunik

ArmInfo. Ankara continues to seek an extraterritorial corridor through the Syunik region of Armenia.

Thus, the Minister of Transport and Infrastructure of Turkey  Abdulkadir Uraloglu stated that the so-called "Zangezur corridor" will provide an alternative route and throughput capacity/, stated, Anadolu reports.

"Our current Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway connection has a certain  throughput capacity. The Baku-Tbilisi- Kars line is a line that also provides communication with the Black Sea ports through Georgia. But cargo can also go directly. We proceed from the fact that there should be an alternative: there is a line that starts from Kars and goes to Igdir-Diluja, from there to Nakhichevan," he noted.

According to him, this is 43 kilometers through Armenia and 61  kilometers if through Iran. "The line then runs from Azerbaijan to the Far East via the Caspian Sea. Work on the implementation of this project will begin in the coming months. There is an existing railway line in Nakhichevan, it will be repaired. This line will provide additional capacity by creating an alternative route," Uraloglu said.

The Meghri route is a project for a transport route about 40 km long through the territory of the Syunik region of Armenia, which would provide transport links between the western regions of Azerbaijan and its exclave, the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic. The opening of transport routes in the region was envisaged by the agreements that ended the 44-day Azerbaijani aggression against Artsakh in the fall of 2020. However, contrary to the agreements, Baku and Ankara are trying to get an extraterritorial corridor.