I am not aware of such negotiations, this is the first time I am hearing what you said. The second president of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan, said this in an interview with several media outlets—and referring to the fact that, according to WikiLeaks disclosures, third President Serzh Sargsyan's son-in-law had assured the US ambassador during a meeting that the Iran-Armenia natural gas pipeline would not become a transit pipeline.

"The president's son-in-law had no connection with the Iranian [natural] gas pipeline and could not have had any. That gas pipeline did not imply any transit opportunity from the start. Gas pipelines are not built just like that, that's why you need to have contractual agreements already, what amount of gas, what amount of oil they will take. We [i.e. Armenia] built that gas pipeline because we had signed a ‘gas-for-electricity’ exchange [deal] with the Iranian side. That was the basis [for the fact] that the gas pipeline is being built, that it would not be empty, that it would be used.

There was no other interest from the Georgian side or any other party. Sometimes they say [that] a gas pipeline with a larger radius was to be built. It is an absolute lie because we did not have other amounts provided for by the contract,” stated the second president of Armenia.