How was the version of Meghri, which was offered during your administration as a solution to the Karabakh issue and the normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations, different from the version that is now in force and is called the “Zangezur Corridor” by the Azerbaijanis? Answering Aravot’s question at Monday’s press conference, the second president of Armenia Robert Kocharyan said that Turkey was not in the picture at the time.
“Do you not see the difference?” At the time, when it came to annexing Karabakh to Armenia, the Key West agreement argued that Karabakh would join Armenia through a corridor that would have the same status. From a safety point of view, the width of the corridor was as follows: 42 km on both sides of the grad distance. Now compare it with the current situation, with the current security and status of uncertainty in Karabakh. The difference is in that, “Robert Kocharyan detailed.
To the clarifying question regarding why that option was not implemented, the second president answered, “The President of Azerbaijan refused to sign at the last moment in Key West. I have written about it in detail in my book. He said that he could not convince even his family members, he said that he overestimated his opportunity to influence public opinion. He was quite honest from that point of view. He refused at the last moment. Now imagine if we had a Key West solution and compare that solution with the current situation. There were no edges of comparison. It was about the right of way, it was only about road transport. Railways were not written about.”
Nelly Grigoryan
