Armenian PM, Iranian President discussed regional issues and bilateral projects

YEREVAN, June 2. /ARKA/. In a phone call with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on June 1 Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan shared his impressions and information about his last meeting in Brussels with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and European Council President Charles Michel.

According to the press service of the Armenian government, Pashinyan and Raisi exchanged views on regional communications, the start of a process to delimit the state border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the process of the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement and prospects of normalization of relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Pashinyan and Raisi also discussed the Armenian-Iranian agenda. Particular attention was paid to the third Armenia-Iran high-voltage power transmission line (still under construction), the construction of the North-South highway, and some other issues related to the energy sphere.

The two men confirmed their mutual invitations to pay official visits to each other’s county.

In a statement issued after the May 22 meeting in Brussels between Pashinyan and Aliyev, European Council President Charles Michel said that Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to proceed with unblocking the transport links between the two countries, and also agreed on the principles governing transit between western Azerbaijan and Nakhichevan, and between different parts of Armenia via Azerbaijan, as well as international transport through communications infrastructure of both countries.

'Notably they agreed on principles of border administration, security, land fees but also customs in the context of international transport,' he said.-0-