“We hope that Armenian-Turkish bilateral relations will improve with the help of the Black Sea Silk Road Corridor [(BSSRC) interregional tourism route].” 

The US Ambassador to Armenia, John Heffern, told the aforesaid to Armenian News-NEWS.am.

“The reason why we [, the US,] are partnering with such projects lies in the fact that we believe that, over time, the normalization of relations between people will contribute to the improvement of relations between governments and countries. 

In Heffern’s words, there is no promise, there is no condition.

“But the idea is that, over time, human relations contribute to the improvement of bilateral relations between countries,” the American diplomat noted.

The BSSRC is a 3,000-kilometer route which starts from Thessaloniki, Greece, and ends in Meghri, Armenia, and it includes around 150 scenic spots.