Turkey was not at all in the Meghri option for the settlement of the Karabakh issue. The second president of Armenia, leader of the opposition "Armenia" Bloc Robert Kocharyan stated this during his year-end press conference Monday—and referring to the question of how the Meghri option, which was proposed during his rule as a solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) conflict, differs from the option that is being implemented now, and which the Azerbaijanis call the "Zangezur corridor."

"And do you not see the difference? There are no edges. At that time, it was about joining Karabakh to Armenia. The Key West agreement supposed that Karabakh would join Armenia through a corridor that also would have the same status as Karabakh. The width of the corridor, which is not written in those documents, but from the point of view of security at that time I had worded it as follows: a 21-21—42—km corridor on both sides of the range of the Grad [missiles]. Now compare it with the current situation, with the current uncertainty and security and the status of Karabakh. The difference is in that," said the second president.

To the question why the Meghri option was not implemented, Kocharyan responded: "The [then] president of Azerbaijan refused to sign at the last moment in Key West. I have written about it in detail in my book. He said that he could not convince even his family members, he said that he considered that he overestimated his capability to influence [Azerbaijani] public opinion."

Also, the second president of Armenia emphasized that the Meghri option was only about the right of road, and there was no talk about the railway.

"It was about a motorway—an overpass tunnel," Robert Kocharyan added.