“It is just a corridor that exists. Call it a road or a corridor, but it cannot bring any benefit. There is an opportunity for the countries that use it to interfere in your internal affairs, if suddenly something happens on that road, or they are dissatisfied with the maintenance of that road by you,” referring to Nikol Pashinyan’s statement in the briefing with journalists that in the context of unblocking the roads, Armenia does not follow the logic of the corridor, and he was talking about a road that Turkey and Azerbaijan will also use, said Armen Manvelyan, an expert on energy and security issues.
He mentioned: “When you voluntarily hand over your territory to someone else, it is a sign of sovereignty. At one time, Germany had a similar road through the territory of Poland to Kaliningrad, which belonged to it at that time. Through the rights it had on that road, it interfered in the internal affairs of Poland. In fact, we want to create the same in our country, and only those who do not imagine this can talk about its positive aspects.”
As for Pashinyan’s assertion that despite the complications, we are moving with a peace agenda, Armen Manvelyan said: “The peace agenda really has no alternative. If you strengthen your army, you create a peace agenda. If by that you mean giving up territory and road, then this is not an agenda of peace, but of war.”
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