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Azatutyun Radiokayan (3 July 2025)

Astghik Bedevian

The Armenian Foreign Ministry did not deny on Thursday a report that the United States wants an American company to handle the movement of people and cargo from Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave through Armenian territory.

Citing two unnamed diplomats, an article posted earlier this week on the website of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a U.S. think-tank, said that the proposal made by the administration of President Donald Trump is “grounded in American strategic logic: U.S. business participation as a stabilizing force, akin to a recent deal on rare metals in Ukraine.” It gave no other details of the proposed logistical arrangement.

The author of the article, South Caucasus analyst Olesya Vartanyan, told RFE/RL’s Armenian Service on Wednesday that Josh Huck, a U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state, presented it to Armenia and Azerbaijan during a visit to the two South Caucasus states in late May.

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