The possible unblocking of communications in the region is not connected with the demarcation and delimitation of the borders between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Armenian Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan said in an interview with TASS on Tuesday.

“We follow the statement of the leaders of the three countries in Sochi, according to which an agreement was reached to take steps to increase stability and security on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, as well as to work on the establishment of a bilateral commission on delimitation and further demarcation of the state border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, with the advisory support of the Russian Federation. However, this issue is in no way related to the possible opening of transport communications in the region,” he said.

The Deputy Prime Minister also added that an expert subgroup of the Deputy Prime Ministers of Armenia, Russia and Azerbaijan has been set up within the framework of the trilateral working group on unblocking the transport communications, “There was no discussion on the final settlement of these issues,” he said.

According to the Deputy Prime Minister, the statement of Azerbaijan on the alleged “Zangezur Corridor” was unexpected for the Armenian authorities, but Yerevan hopes that the work of the Deputy Prime Ministers of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia in the direction of regional unblocking, the contacts will continue within the framework of the basic principles that have already been agreed.

“The last statement of official Baku was unexpected for us. It was supposed that we would continue the work of the (working group) in the coming days. I hope the situation will stabilize and we will continue to work within the framework of the basic principles that have already been agreed,” he said.

According to Grigoryan, all the meetings of the working group so far have been held in the format of a constructive dialogue.