Pashinyan: Armenia ready to ensure communication between Nakhichevan and Azerbaijan

YEREVAN, 11 September. /ARKA/. The Republic of Armenia is ready to ensure transport and railway communication between western regions of Azerbaijan and its exclave of Nakhichevan (via southern Armenia), but Baku does not agree that security should be provided by Armenia, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at a question-and-answer session in the parliament on Wednesday.

He quoted one of the clauses of the 2020 trilateral statement (signed by Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia to end the war in Nagorno-Karabakh), according to which the construction of new transport communications connecting the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic with the western regions of Azerbaijan should be ensured within the framework of mutual consent of the parties.

Baku, however, says ‘no’. In its opinion, the traffic on this section should not be provided and regulated by Armenia. But how can it be? You yourself signed it. You were in favour of Armenia controlling everything,’ Pashinyan expressed bewilderment.

According to him, there is not a single clause in the 9 November 2020 agreement that limits the sovereignty of the Republic of Armenia over its territory, and there is not a single function that the Republic of Armenia would be ready to transfer to someone else. --0--

 

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19:45 09/11/2024