YEREVAN, OCTOBER 4, ARTSAKHPRESS. Azerbaijan seeks to have a corridor toward Nakhijevan “out of Armenia’s control” and seeks to set an energy-trade corridor directly from the Caspian Sea to Turkey, the Director General of Transit of Road and Road Transport Organization of Iran Javad Hedayati told the Iranian ILNA.
Hedayati said Iran should be ready for any situation because the current situation will unlikely be maintained.
“Apparently, Azerbaijan seeks to have a corridor toward Nakhchivan out of Armenian’s control to keep its connection with Nakhchivan without any obstacle and long-term guarantee and it seeks to establish an energy-trade corridor directly from the Caspian Sea to Turkey with the coordination of its allies,” ILNA quoted the Iranian official as saying. “We should pay attention that the current situation will unlikely be maintained and continued and because of that we should be ready for any situation,” he added.
Azerbaijan seeks that connection to Nakhchivan territory in a form of a corridor from inside Armenia, Javad Hedayati said.
The Iranian government has numerously said that it strongly opposes the Azeri-Turkish aspirations on opening a “corridor” through Armenian territory and emphasized that any change in the Armenian-Iranian border is unacceptable for Tehran.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan numerously ruled out ceding any extraterritorial corridor to Azerbaijan through Armenian territory, at the same time noted that Armenia is ready to open the roads.
Addressing the UN Security Council meeting after the Azeri attack on Armenia in September, the Permanent Representative of Armenia to the UN Mher Margaryan said that there are credible reports that Azerbaijan is planning yet another military offensive by widening the geography of the aggression against Armenia, including from the direction of Nakhijevan, to realize the unlawful ambitions of Azerbaijan towards establishing an extraterritorial corridor through the sovereign territory of Armenia.
