For eight months now, complete peace has been established on the Armenia-Azerbaijan border, and 2025 has become the first calendar year since our independence— that is, since 1991—when there were no casualties or injuries as a result of Armenia-Azerbaijan shooting. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated in his address at the European Parliament on Wednesday in Strasbourg, France.

Pashinyan added as follows: “For months now, residents of the border settlement have not heard the sounds of gunfire. Moreover, for the first time since independence, a train passed through the territory of Azerbaijan and Georgia and came to the Republic of Armenia in November 2025. This happened after the president of Azerbaijan announced in October 2025 that he was lifting the restrictions on rail transportation to Armenia via the territory of Azerbaijan, and I am grateful to the president of Azerbaijan for such a decision.

We, in turn, have announced that we are ready to ensure transit from Azerbaijan to Turkey and vice versa right now, because we can do this using our existing roads at the moment.

Neither Azerbaijan nor Turkey have taken advantage of this opportunity yet, I assume also because they think that such a solution might delay the implementation of the TRIPP project.

From this rostrum, I officially declare that Armenia has not only no intention, but also no reason to delay the implementation of the TRIPP project, because the project fully meets the short-term, medium-term, and long-term interests of the Republic of Armenia. And as you saw from the abovementioned quotes, it does not in any way undermine the sovereignty, territorial integrity, or jurisdiction of the Republic of Armenia.