U.S. ambassador to Turkey said what Yerevan and Baku are agreeding on  - Konstantin Zatulin

ArmInfo. The words of the American Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack that the United States is ready to lease the transport corridor between Armenia and Azerbaijan  for 100 years to help advance the negotiations between Armenia and  Azerbaijan may not be a bluff, but a real plan. This was stated to  RTVI by the first deputy head of the State Duma Committee on CIS  Affairs Konstantin Zatulin.

The deputy believes that behind the words of the American ambassador  "there is the consent of the leadership of today's Armenia and  Azerbaijan to this option."

"I think that this is a very real prospect. And I even think that all  the recent aggravations in Russian- Armenian and also  Russian-Azerbaijani relations are precisely connected with the fact  that tensions were artificially escalated by Azerbaijan and Armenia  in order to avoid asking Moscow about the "Zangezur corridor," the  deputy said.

Previously, Zatulin recalled, the talk was that if such a route was  created, it would be controlled by Russian troops or representatives  of Russia. Now, as the parliamentarian believes, "no one in Armenia  or Azerbaijan is worried about this."

"It is important for them that the new masters of the region come and  exercise this control. Therefore, a situation is deliberately created  in which, due to the cooling of relations, it is not convenient to  ask Russia about this, but it is convenient to negotiate with it and  the Americans. I think that the US Ambassador to Turkey actually said  what was agreed upon," he concluded.

The press secretary of the Armenian Prime Minister Nazeli  Baghdasaryan assured that Armenia is not negotiating the transfer of  its territories under the control of a third country and that what  the US Ambassador to Turkey said has no relation to reality.