In 2022, Armenia’s international partners stated that Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity should be recognized, and that the rights and security of the people of Nagorno-Karabakh would be ensured through international mechanisms.

Today, we are being persuaded to outsource the Syunik road. They propose to avoid using the term “corridor,” calling it an outsourced Armenian road instead, allegedly to be controlled by an American company — which Azerbaijan opposes.

Just as back then, the international mechanisms failed to ensure the rights and security of the people of Nagorno-Karabakh — resulting instead in ethnic cleansing and displacement — the same will happen now if we accept this proposal: there will be no outsourcing. Azerbaijan will simply get the corridor through Syunik it has long dreamed of, and we will have no control over it.

Therefore, the following narrative must be put forward: the obligation to provide an "unimpeded road" was born under the condition of Nagorno-Karabakh's existence. If Nagorno-Karabakh no longer exists under the terms of the November 9 trilateral statement, then no such obligation stemming from it remains.

Do you understand? There is no such separate obligation to provide an “unimpeded” or “unobstructed” road, nor a “corridor” or an “outsourced road,” if Nagorno-Karabakh does not exist.

Thus, Armenia has no obligation to provide any separate road, and for unblocking (communications), all roads must be opened.