Armenia and Azerbaijan are exchanging lists of potential goods they are interested in buying and selling, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced at a press briefing Thursday.

He added that that this process is ongoing and discussions are underway. Pashinyan informed that earlier, during a meeting of the deputy prime ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijani deputy PM had expressed his country’s readiness to sell oil products to Armenia.

Nikol Pashinyan added that after that, the Armenian Cabinet of Ministers studied the market and those businessmen who, according to the Armenian government, were not inclined to turn this into a political action, for example, stating that the Cabinet of Ministers is forcing them to buy gasoline from Azerbaijan, while they do not intend to do so.

“We said that there is such an opportunity. The companies of the two countries—two companies from Armenia—have established contacts," Pashinyan noted, admitting that during the delivery of the first batch of Azerbaijani fuel to Armenia, there were cases of boycott, as there were gasoline station chains in Armenia that refused to sell Azerbaijani gasoline.

According to him, this means that the initial concerns and fears of the Armenian authorities are justified.

"Now I believe that this market and opportunity should be opened to everyone, and whoever wants to can use it; there is no restriction," the Armenian premier concluded.