After the meeting on December 15 in Brussels, Nikol Pashinyan announced that the Yeraskh-Julfa-Meghri-Horadiz railway will start operating. “After the trilateral meetings organized on the initiative of both the EU and the Russian side, in fact, it was possible to achieve concrete results only on the issue of the railway. What is the main obstacle that doesn’t let to reach agreement on the issue of unblocking roads? Did Azerbaijan present any other demands during the closed meetings in Brussels? Nikol Pashinyan was asked during his online press-conference.

“What we talked about railways in Brussels was a generalization of the conversation that began in Sochi, and there we stated the following: customs and border control will operate on both sides, which is acceptable both for us and Azerbaijan, and we agreed to use the possibility of the railway,” Pashinya said.

As for roads, Pashinyan said that our principled position remained the same․

“On December 14, during a private conversation with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, we discussed the same issues as before and after,” Pashinyan said.