Azerbaijan “no longer interested” in Zangazur corridor
- 28 October, 02:07
Azerbaijani presidential aide Hikmat Hajiyev has said that Baku was no longer interested in securing a land corridor through Armenia to its Nakhchivan exclave.
“Our agenda was only about building transport linkages and connectivity through the framework of bilateral engagement,” said Hajiyev.
“If this is the case, yes, but if not then OK. It is still on the table but it will require from the Armenian side to show they are really interested in that.”
The Zangazur corridor thought-after Baku since the end of the Nagorno-Karabakh war in 2020 was intended to connect Azerbaijan proper to its Nakhchivan exclave through Armenia’s Syunik (Zangazur in Azerbaijani) region, bypassing neihgbouring Iran.
Hajiyev also said that Azerbaijan never had any intention to seize the Armenian land through which the corridor would pass.
"After the two sides failed to agree on its opening, the project has lost its attractiveness for us - we can do this with Iran instead," he said.
The opening of a land corridor linking Azerbaijan to Nakchchivan through Armenian territory had been stipulated by the peace treaty signed by the two countries’ leaders following the war in 2020.
However, the two countries failed to reach any agreement on this issue after Armenia opposed the opening of such corridor.
