Media: US offers to oversee Zangezur Corridor, envoy says

The United States has proposed overseeing the management of the Zangezur Corridor for 100 years in a bid to help resolve ongoing tensions between Azerbaijan and Armenia, US Ambassador to Türkiye Tom Barrack said during a briefing with journalists in New York.

According to Barrack, Washington has offered to manage the 32-kilometer stretch of the proposed transport route connecting mainland Azerbaijan with its exclave Nakhchivan, Caliber.Az reports per Middle East Eye.

Barrack noted that the proposal involves transferring the corridor’s management to a private American commercial operator, which would function as an impartial guarantor.

This is the first official confirmation that the Trump administration has offered to take on a direct role in managing the corridor, which remains a key sticking point in the normalisation talks between Yerevan and Baku.

The Zangezur Corridor is a proposed transport route connecting mainland Azerbaijan to its Nakhchivan exclave and linking to Türkiye via the Nakhchivan-Igdir-Kars railway and highway. As a key component of the Middle Corridor—a multimodal trade route from China through Central Asia, the Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan, and Türkiye to Europe—the corridor aims to streamline East-West trade, bypassing traditional routes through Russia and reducing reliance on maritime paths like the Suez Canal.

By Sabina Mammadli