Armenia to have a final say in U.S.-Armenia company Trump Route -  Armenian premier 

ArmInfo.  A joint Armenian-American venture will be created for the Trump Route. However, Armenia will have the final say on strategic matters. This  was stated by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on November 14  at a conference entitled "Crossroads of Peace:  Developing Regional  Communications and Cooperation."

"The first thing we will do to implement the Trump Route project, and  what we are currently working on, is to demonstrate how the project  will be implemented. So to speak, to create a written framework for  its regulation," he said. The first step in creating this framework,  he added, was the Washington Declaration.  Then, he continued, a  joint Armenian-American company will be created, called Trump Route  (the name is still being discussed). The company's governing body  will be a Board of Directors, which will include representatives from  Armenia and the United States.

"The distribution (of votes) on the Board of Directors will depend on  the shares of the parties, which is currently being discussed."  However, Armenia will have the decisive vote on matters of strategic  importance," he explained.

As a reminder, on August 8, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan  and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed a seven-point joint  "Declaration of Peace" 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, surrounded by  Armenia, Turkey, and Iran. The TRIPP (Trump Route for International  Peace and Prosperity) project (a 42-kilometer road in southern  Armenia that will hand over control to the United States for 99  years) project, according to experts, could significantly change the  geopolitical situation in the South Caucasus.