President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has heralded joint transport projects with Turkey via Zangezur.
“I must say that Turkish presses and all non-governmental organizations showed tremendous support to Azerbaijan during the war,” Aliyev said during his meeting with the delegation led by Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey Akif Cagatay Kilic, adding that Azerbaijan highly appreciates the support.
“The current situation in our region is new. The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has been resolved and is now history. Today we need to look towards the future and think about cooperation in the region, and one of the key objectives is to implement transport projects and to open the Zangezur corridor. I’m certain that we will achieve this through combined efforts,” Aliyev said, Azertaj reports.
Turkey and Azerbaijan started having an appetite for ‘transport projects’ after the statement signed by Nikol Pashinyan on November 9 and the ‘specification’ of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border that followed. The Armenian authorities have agreed to ‘specify’ the border in Syunik Province. Moreover, the authorities aren’t refuting the existence of a certain document on Syunik Province. Simultaneously, Azerbaijan isn’t the legal successor of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Azerbaijan, but the legal successor of the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan.
In spite of the constant statements by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that the statements and agreements don’t imply the creation of a corridor, Turkey and Azerbaijan still share the same opinion.
