Russian pundit: Zangezur corridor to be opened under any circumstances

Yerevan will have to open the Zangezur corridor under any circumstances.

Igor Korotchenko, general director of the Caspian Institute for Strategic Studies Igor Korotchenko wrote in a social network, Azertag reports.

"Armenia, having left the CSTO [the Collective Security Treaty Organization], will resemble a walnut squeezed in a vice - between Azerbaijan and Türkiye: push a little harder and it will burst. Armenia will not be admitted to NATO: Türkiye will block it. In any case, Yerevan will have to open the Zangezur corridor," the Russian expert wrote.

Azerbaijan continues intensively the construction of a railway that will pass through the Zangezur corridor.

Once constructed, the corridor will connect Azerbaijan's western provinces and Nakhchivan via Armenia, further stretching to China, Central Asia, the Caspian Sea, the Caucasus and Türkiye.

After the Second Garabagh War in November 2020, the leaders of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Russia signed an agreement to open a railway between Azerbaijan and Nakhchivan, a land-locked autonomous republic located west of Baku.

In the latest meeting on May 25, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in Moscow decided to ask their deputy prime ministers to smooth out the technical issues on the project.