Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Kobakhidze stated that the emerging alternative transport corridor poses no threat to Georgia’s transit capabilities.
He was responding to comments made by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian President Vahagn Khachaturyan in Davos, who noted that future freight may move directly across the Armenia-Azerbaijan border instead of via Georgia, as it does today, Sputnik-Georgia reports.
“I’d like to cite a simple figure to demonstrate that this alternative corridor poses no threat to Georgia. Over the past five years, freight volume on the Middle Corridor has grown sevenfold. In this context, our sole objective is to maximize our infrastructure’s capacity to meet growing demand. Given this upward trend, the alternative corridor will simply supplement our transit function,” Kobakhidze stated.
He also noted that Georgia is investing heavily in developing its own transit infrastructure, including the North-South Corridor connecting to Russia.
Armenia’s Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently signed a document in Washington outlining cooperation under the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity (TRIPP). The document defines the framework for the TRIPP initiative but does not create binding legal obligations for Armenia or the U.S.
