Azerbaijan lifted restrictions on cargo transit to Armenia.

The President of Azerbaijan announced the lifting of all restrictions on cargo transit to Armenia. Armenian authorities considered this an important step in opening regional communications.

As reported by the Caucasian Knot, on August 8, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan signed a declaration on the cessation of hostilities at a meeting in Washington. However, Aliyev and Pashinyan did not sign the peace agreement, but only initialed it, and most of the declaration's clauses contain vague wording, analysts noted.

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Azerbaijan has lifted all restrictions on cargo transit to Armenia, Ilham Aliyev announced today at a joint press conference with Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in Astana.

"I must say that Azerbaijan has lifted all restrictions on cargo transit to Armenia [...] and the first such transit cargo was a shipment of Kazakh grain to Armenia. I think that this is also a good indicator that peace between Azerbaijan and Armenia is no longer just on paper, but also in practice," the Azerbaijani news agency APA quotes Aliyev as saying.

Yerevan welcomes this statement, said Nazeli Baghdasaryan, press secretary of the Armenian Prime Minister.

"This step is important for opening regional communications and strengthening "mutual trust and institutionalization of the peace established between Armenia and Azerbaijan - in accordance with the agreements reached in Washington," Novosti-Armenia quotes her as saying.

Azerbaijan is geographically located on the route of transport corridors in which China and India are interested, Azerbaijani analysts noted in September, assessing Baku's prospects for cooperation with BRICS. "Against the backdrop of declining oil production and the prospect of a reduction in fossil fuel consumption in Europe, Azerbaijan urgently needs alternative sources of income. An excellent opportunity for this is the use of transit opportunities, given the passage of global transport corridors through Azerbaijan... The involvement of large countries such as Russia, China, and India in the transportation of goods through Azerbaijan along the North-South and East-West routes will turn the country into a major transport hub," said Togrul Juvarli, a member of the Azerbaijan National Public Committee on European Integration.