Armenian Security Council: no road corridors for Azerbaijan

YEREVAN, May 24. /ARKA/. Armenian Security Council Secretary Armen Grigoryan denied today a statement made by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev after his May 22 meeting with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in Brussels that Azerbaijan will have ‘a road corridor” that would connect it to its Nakhichevan exclave via southern Armenian province of Syunik.

In a telephone conversation with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan the day before Aliyev said that Azerbaijan and Armenia reached an agreement in Brussels on May 22 to establish a corridor through Armenian territory, including the construction of both a railroad and a highway.

"The position of the Republic of Armenia has not changed. There can be no ‘corridor roads or transport communications’ on the territory of Armenia. All the agreements reached in Brussels are about the reopening of transport links, which do not differ from the public statements made by Armenian representatives earlier," Grigoryan noted.

According to him, a statement made after the May 22 meeting by the European Council President Charles Michel shows that the agreements reached are about opening of communications, borders, customs control, collection of road fees, organization of international transit.

"These are important issues for the implementation of the Armenian Crossroads project, and the Armenian government will consistently move in this direction," Grigoryan said. -0-