Russia supports Armenia in plans to create transport corridor with  Azerbaijan called `Trump route`  - RF vice-premier

ArmInfo. Russia supports Armenia in its plans to create a transport corridor with Azerbaijan called the "Trump route", if Yerevan considers it necessary. This was  stated to journalists by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexei  Overchuk, whose words are quoted by TASS.

"We are considering this issue in this plane. Armenia is our  strategic ally, and if Armenia believes that something is good for  them, then, of course, we support Armenia here," he said, answering a  relevant question.

"If they believe that signing a corresponding declaration in  Washington provides greater security guarantees, then this is good,  because we also support peace processes in the South Caucasus,"  Overchuk added. According to him, this "entirely and completely  meets" the interests of the Russian Federation.

On August 8, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani  President Ilham Aliyev signed a joint "peace declaration" in  Washington. It provides for a joint appeal to the Organization for  Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to terminate the OSCE Minsk  process and related structures, as well as the creation of a  transport corridor through Armenian territory that will connect  Azerbaijan with its Nakhchivan exclave. The TRIPP (Trump Route for  International Peace and Prosperity) project, a 42-km road in southern  Armenia that will hand over control of the road to the United States  for 99 years, according to experts, is capable of significantly  changing the geopolitical situation in the South Caucasus.  On the  same day, the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan initialed a  peace agreement, which consists of 17 articles. The preamble of the  document states that the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of  Azerbaijan, recognizing the urgent need to establish a just,  comprehensive and lasting peace in the region, striving to promote  the achievement of this goal through the establishment of interstate  relations, guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the  Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly  Relations and Cooperation among States in accordance with the Charter  of the United Nations (1970), the Final Act of the Helsinki  Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (1975) and the  Almaty Declaration of December 21, 1991, and striving to develop  relations based on the norms and principles enshrined in the said  documents, expressing mutual will to establish good-neighborly  relations among themselves, agreed to establish peace and interstate  relations.