Former OSCE Minsk Group co-chair highlights strategic importance of Zangezur corridor for Azerbaijan

Richard Hoagland, former US Co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, emphasized the critical significance of the Zangezur Corridor for Azerbaijan.

“The Zangezur Corridor is extremely important for Azerbaijan,” Hoagland stated, underscoring the corridor’s role in linking Azerbaijan’s mainland, internationally recognized by the United Nations, with its exclave Nakhchivan, Caliber.Az reports via local media.

 “The Corridor links the mainland recognized by the United Nations with its borders of Azerbaijan, with its exclave Nakhchivan, and to reach Nakhchivan, you have to travel through southern Armenia. The negotiations that are taking place right now between Yerevan and Baku are working on this.”

He further noted the recent diplomatic progress achieved in Washington, describing the initialing of new peace steps at the White House that acknowledged the corridor’s importance under a new designation. “The recent initialing of the new steps towards peace here in Washington, in the White House, recognized the importance of the Zangezur Corridor and called it now the TRIPP Corridor.”

Hoagland highlighted the United States’ commitment to the corridor’s implementation, which aims not only to generate economic benefits but also to support regional stability. “What that means is the United States will participate in the implementation of the Zangezur corridor, and in addition to gaining economic benefits from this process, it will also consider contributing to keeping things peaceful,” he explained.

By Vafa Guliyeva