AZERBAIJAN NEEDS ROAD OF COMMON USE MORE THAN ARMENIA DOES

YEREVAN, JUNE 25. ARMINFO. The Azerbaijan-proposed project to lay a
road of common use between Azerbaijan and Armenia via Karabakh and
Nakhichevan is more necessary to Baku than Yerevan, says Armenia’s
Transport and Communication Minister Andranik Manukyan.

Manukyan advocates the development of transport infrastructures by
neighbor countries for people to be able to freely move. But
Azerbaijan’s proposal is of political nature while there are no
appropriate conditions for its fulfillment yet.

To remind, while commenting on the Armenian-Azeri presidential
meeting in Paris June 17 Azeri Deputy FM Araz Azimov said that
Azerbaijan was waiting for Armenia’s response to its proposal for
opening an Azeri-Armenian road via Karabakh and Nakhichevan. Azimov
said that communications are one of the key issues in the Karabakh
peace process and is crucial for the restoration of normal life in
the region. Armenia’s FM responded that there is no such issue on the
agenda of the Karabakh peace talks for the time being.