Opposition lawmaker Tigran Abrahamyan emphasizes that Armenia’s original intent to have open roads to the outside world has been overshadowed by the current focus on the “Zangezur corridor.” In a Facebook post, Abrahamyan recalled that the initial discussions centered around opening all regional roads.
“Initially, it was about opening all regional roads,” Abrahamyan wrote. “However, through the efforts of Turkey and Azerbaijan, and due to the defeatist and concessionary policy of official Yerevan, the topic has now shifted to the so-called ‘Zangezur corridor’ on the international agenda.”
Abrahamyan criticized the current discourse, highlighting that the international community seems to have forgotten Armenia’s right to open roads for its own access to the outside world. “Besides the fact that the Turanian political leaders are trying to turn the road into a corridor at any cost, today, it seems, no one remembers that Armenia should also have had open roads to the outside world,” he noted.
Turkey and Azerbaijan have frequently proposed the creation of the Zangezur corridor, which would run through Armenia’s southern Syunik province, connecting Nakhijevan to mainland Azerbaijan. Despite these propositions, Armenia has consistently denied participating in any negotiations to provide a corridor to Azerbaijan. The Armenian government maintains that they have only agreed to the unblocking of regional transport communications, not the establishment of any specific corridor.
