Analysts treat flights from Baku to Nakhichevan via Armenia as exceptions

Air flights from Azerbaijan to Nakhichevan via the territory of Armenia are no harbinger of unblocking two countries' communications, Armenian analysts believe. These flights will not affect Armenia's relations with Iran, which has closed the airspace for Azerbaijani military aircrafts, the analysts have added.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on October 6, an Azerbaijani passenger plane made a flight through Armenia's airspace for the first time in seven years.

According to Armen Vardanyan, a political analyst, the permit for the Azerbaijani party to fly in Armenia's airspace will not become an instrument of pressure on Azerbaijan.

Akop Badalyan, a political observer, believes that the provision of Armenia's airspace to Azerbaijan will not affect the Armenian-Iranian relations. Armenia will not be able to use the air corridor as an instrument of pressure on Azerbaijan, since this is not the only route to Nakhichevan, the observer has added.

Mr Badalyan was sceptical about chances of opening Armenian-Azerbaijani communications. According to his version, so far there are no prerequisites for this, since the opening of communications is not so much an economic as a political agenda; and there are contradictions among the parties.

Goar Iskandaryan, an Iranian scholar, believes that European countries, including France, Germany and Austria, are interested in opening this air route.