Pashinyan stresses Turkey-Armenia rail route in regional unblockingSeptember 25, 2021 - 11:37 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has addressed the 76th session of the UN General Assembly, weighing in on the unblocking of transport communications in the region, stressing the importance of a possible rail route from Turkey to Armenia. "I consider the opening of regional communications extremely important, which is stated in the trilateral statements signed by the President of the Russian Federation, the President of Azerbaijan and the Prime Minister of Armenia of November 9, 2020 and January 11, 2021," Pashinyan in a pre-recorded message on Friday, September 25. "While examining the topic of reopening transport links, we discovered that there are options that aim to sustain regional isolation and hostility, but there are also options that emphasize regional interconnectedness and can serve as a step-by-step solution of the problem of hostility. We are an advocate for the latter option." Pashinyan added that if the railway connecting Armenia to Turkey is opened too, the topic of unblocking regional communications will cover a broader scope. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan earlier used the UN stage to declare that he has been seeing "positive signals" coming from Pashinyan. Erdogan said a proposed platform comprising five or six nations of the region will help establish communication from Turkey's Igdir to Azerbaijan, possibly referencing a proposed railroad route through Armenia. Top stories The Cabinet of Ministers decided on Thursday, November 9 to allocated AMD 120 million to arrange the gathering. Michael Roth believes sanctions must be put on the table after Baku‘s ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh. The Yerevan City Council has elected Tigran Avniyan from the ruling Civil Contract as the mayor of the Armenian capital. The Armenian Parliament on Tuesday, October 3 voted to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Partner news | Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Ucom launches network modernization efforts in few regions of Armenia In particular, on March 28, the legacy Mobile Switching Subsystem will be replaced with a new one. |