The Zangezur Corridor And A Future Civil War In China
Facebook Post Published By Vartan Oskanian On 16 July 2025 Outsourcing Syunik: A Corridor Too Far In today’s press conference, Nikol Pashinyan likened the idea of granting control over a corridor through Armenia’s sovereign territory to a third party with outsourcing national infrastructure such as the airport, railways, or postal services. This analogy is absurd, misleading, and dangerous. First, outsourcing the management of an airport or a postal service is a commercial arrangement in which national jurisdiction remains fully intact. The Republic of Armenia continues to exercise sovereignty over its land, airspace, and legal framework. These are standard public-private partnerships used globally to promote development, modernization, and efficiency—while retaining full national control. By contrast, the “corridor” concept—demanded by Azerbaijan and occasionally echoed by outside powers—implies something entirely different: the extra-territorialization of Armenian land. It envis...