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Azatutyun Radiokayan (18 September 2024)

Ruzanna Stepanian

Armenia must have full control over any road or railway that would connect Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave through Armenian territory, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian insisted on Wednesday.

He seemed to respond to Baku’s latest accusations that Yerevan is not complying it with a relevant provision of the Russian-brokered ceasefire that stopped the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh. It requires the Armenian side to “guarantee the security of transport links” between Nakhichevan and the rest of Azerbaijan passing through Armenia’s Syunik province.

An Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesman said earlier this week that Baku will use Iranian territory for that purpose if Yerevan continues to oppose the opening of such a corridor. Iran has already served as the main transit for Azerbaijan-Nakhichevan traffic for over three decades. Last October, Azerbaijani and Iranian officials broke ground on a new Iranian transit road bypassing Armenia.

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