ARMINFO News Agency, Armenia
 Thursday


Iranian diplomat: Iran, Armenia and Georgia have a brilliant
opportunity to implement a number of trilateral projects

Yerevan 11.01.18

Marianna Mkrtchyan. Armenian Ambassador to Georgia Ruben Sadoyan
during the meeting with his Iranian counterpart Seyed Javad
Kavamshahid discussed the Armenian-Iranian economic relations.

As the press service of the Armenian Embassy in Georgia told ArmInfo,
the parties agreed at the beginning of the meeting that the relations
between Armenia and Iran are at a sufficiently high level and are
intertwined with many threads.

Speaking about economic cooperation, Sadoyan touched upon the
opportunities of Armenia as a transit country, and stressed that
official Yerevan is the only member of the Eurasian Economic Union
(EAP), which has land communication with friendly Iran and can become
a gateway for IRI in terms of access to the countries of the EAEC, CIS
and the EU.

In this context, the interlocutors stressed the importance of the
North-South road corridor as the shortest transit route connecting the
ports of the Persian Gulf and the Black Sea. The Iranian Ambassador to
Georgia noted that Tehran, Yerevan and Tbilisi have a brilliant
opportunity to implement a number of tripartite projects in such areas
as transport, energy and business. According to him, there are no
obstacles on this issue. The sides stated that the
Iran-Armenia-Georgia corridor could become a new and important bridge
linking Europe and Asia.

In this regard, Sadoyan stressed the importance of the interaction of
companies and management structures operating in the territory of the
free economic zone (FEZ) "Meghri" and FEZ "Araz." The interlocutor
also touched on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Sadoyan stated that the
efforts of Armenia and the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group are
constantly confronted with the opposition of Azerbaijan. According to
him, a vivid example of this, the last incident in Artsakh, when an
Armenian soldier died from the bullet of an Azerbaijani sniper.

The Ambassador stressed that Armenia highly appreciates the balanced
position of Iran on an exclusively peaceful settlement of the Karabakh
conflict on the basis of the norms of international law. Sadoyan also
inquired about the internal processes in Iran and stressed the
importance that the friendly IRI has for Armenia.