YEREVAN. – Hraparak daily of the Republic of Armenia writes: The Goris-Kapan highway’s 21-kilometer section, which [PM] Nikol Pashinyan handed over to the Azerbaijanis after the 44-day [Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh)] war [in the fall of 2020], has become a deserted road.

The Azerbaijani side has installed barbed wire and concrete barriers here, which proves that neither Armenians nor large Iranian trucks travel through these roads.

At first, high-ranking RA officials were assuring that we could also use that road by paying customs. It turned out to be a lie. Armenian and Azerbaijani border guards are standing on both sides of the road.

Judging by this photo taken two days ago, this part of [the] Goris-Kapan [motorway] is no longer trafficable.

Let us recall that as a result of snatching this road, the Shurnukh, Vorotan and Bardzravan settlements [of Armenia] were also isolated, which became enclaves and remained in the hope of the bypassing roads that are difficult to pass.