Turkey wants to supervise CaucasusSeptember 7, 2009 - 16:51 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Roads of the World project is rather risky, but it is too early to talk about it, since the problems between the countries have not been resolved yet: the Armenian-Turkish relations and Karabakh conflict, Alexander Sotnichenko , key expert of the St. Petersburg Center for the Middle East Studies told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter. According to him, Turkey is the most economically powerful country in the region. "Having constructed the roads, Turkey projects to resume economic relations between countries and make peace between people of the countries, and in this way it will be able to supervise the region," the expert said. Europe and Turkey are working on the "Roads of the world" century project. The road will link Armenia and Azerbaijan to Europe. According to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, Ahmet Davutoglu, this road will pass through the Lachin corridor to Armenia, Nakhichevan, then to Turkey and Europe. Top stories Authorities said a total of 192 Azerbaijani troops were killed and 511 were wounded during Azerbaijan’s offensive. In 2023, the Azerbaijani government will increase the country’s defense budget by more than 1.1 billion manats ($650 million). The bill, published on Monday, is designed to "eliminate the shortcomings of an unreasonably broad interpretation of the key concept of "compatriot". The earthquake caused a temporary blackout, damaged many buildings and closed a number of rural roads. Partner news | 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. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. 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. |