Pashinyan compares corridor talks to Armenian radio jokes

PanARMENIAN.Net - In a Facebook post, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan referred to discussions about giving Azerbaijan a corridor, drawing on a classic Armenian Radio joke format.

“They ask Armenian Radio: ‘Is it true that Armenia’s (Pashinyan’s) government, as part of the “Great Turan” project, has given an extraterritorial “Zangezur corridor” that benefits only Azerbaijan?’

Armenian Radio replies: ‘It’s true, but not as part of the “Great Turan” project, rather as part of the “Crossroads of Peace” project; not “Zangezur” but “Trump”; not extraterritorial but within the framework of territorial integrity, jurisdiction, sovereignty, and inviolability of borders; not a corridor, but a road; not unilateral, but with mutual benefits,’” Pashinyan wrote.

Earlier, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, speaking in China during the SCO summit — in Pashinyan’s presence — had referred to the so-called “Zangezur corridor.” Pashinyan responded by saying that the vocabulary used by Aliyev “is not understood within the logic agreed upon in Washington.”