YEREVAN. – The transit natural gas pipeline from Iran will not be built through Armenia.

Executive director of  the “Armenian Centre for Society Research” Fund, Iranian Studies specialist Sevak Sarukhanyan, noted the above-said at a press conference on Tuesday.

Sarukhanyan stated this with respect to the construction of the pipeline which will export Iranian natural gas to Europe through a region that is full of disagreements and conflicts.

“The Nagorno-Karabakh issue, in which military actions can start at any time, is present in South Caucasus,” the analyst stressed. “There [also] are the Ossetian, Abkhazian, [and] Georgian domestic issues.” 

In addition, he continued, this transit gas pipeline will pass from under the Black Sea to Bulgaria, and from there to Europe.

“This is about 30-40 billion [US] dollars of investments under the conditions when there are cheaper and, unfortunately for us [Armenia], more sustainable routes for gas exports,” Sevak Sarukhanyan added. “It is the territory Turkey.”