Armenia doesn't agree to limited sovereignty as part of unblocking regional communications - Pashinyan

YEREVAN. Oct 1 (Interfax) - Armenia has never agreed to limit its sovereignty as part of unblocking regional transport communications, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said.

"The Republic of Armenia was ready to provide full security of cargo, vehicles and passengers [from Azerbaijan] on its territory. By the way, all allegations that Armenia had agreed somewhere in some document to third countries providing the security of communications on its territory are a mere distortion of the reality," Pashinyan said at a meeting of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council in Yerevan on Tuesday.

"The same applies to certain comments according to which Armenia has somewhere, ever, somehow agreed to a certain limitation of its sovereignty in relation to regional communications," he said.

"No such thing has ever happened, and this is also an obvious distortion of reality," Pashinyan said.

"The Armenian obligation is clear: to guarantee the security of cargo, vehicles and people on its territory, and we guarantee that," he said.

Armenia's effective transport and logistics policy is a relevant issue, Pashinyan said.

"From the point of view of faster cargo delivery and the search for new, alternative transport communications between Asia and Europe, the North and the South, I want to highlight the Crossroads of Peace project yet again. The project aims to create the most favorable conditions for the development of trade and economic relations between all interested states and a significant increase in the region's logistics potential based on full respect for the sovereignty and jurisdiction of states and the principles of equality and reciprocity," he said.