Azerbaijanis have their wounds, in Azerbaijan they believe—I am not saying whether it is right or wrong—but they believe there that Armenia has kept 20 percent of their country's territory under occupation for 30 years, Armenia National Assembly speaker Alen Simonyan told reporters Thursday.

"It is obvious that it is important for Azerbaijan to prevent any future threat and not allow it, let’s say, in 50 or 100 years... Anything can happen," Simonyan added.

According to him, the majority of Armenians do not want to see Azerbaijani border guards.

"And that is bad, but over time it will pass, too. The same Armenians and Azerbaijanis do business and make friends in Moscow. They do the same in other countries, too. There is tension, the wounds are fresh. And did we not kill people? Did people not die on the Azerbaijani side? There is an issue of minimizing contacts during the period of restoring confidence. [But] this does not mean that in 5-10 years there will be such a need,” Simonyan added.

He said that the unblocking of regional communications as soon as possible is important for Armenia, and “those emotional issues will be resolved quickly.”

The speaker of the Armenian parliament reiterated that Armenians and Azerbaijanis will conduct trade in a very short time.

“We will have a joint market for Armenian-Azerbaijani goods. There will be Azerbaijani goods in our stores, and Armenian goods will be in stores in [Azerbaijani capital] Baku and other cities of Azerbaijan; this is inevitable. Armenians will go and buy [Azerbaijani] gasoline because it is profitable that way,” he emphasized.

As for the “Trump Route,” Alen Simonyan cited as an example the management model of the Argentine company operating Zvartnots International Airport of Armenia’s capital Yerevan.

“Abstractly speaking, conditionally speaking, an Armenian company can be engaged in the construction of energy infrastructure, and another company [can be engaged] in the construction of the railway. These matters will be resolved by a joint Armenian-American organization,” he added.

The head of the Armenian legislature assured that everything will be carried out on the basis of the five well-known principles—i.e. sovereignty, jurisdiction, territorial integrity, inviolability of borders, and reciprocity—and nothing will happen outside the framework of these principles.

“Conventionally speaking, it is impossible for us not to know that they are taking a bomb to Armenia and it explodes halfway. Armenia will know what cargo is being transported. These are technical issues, now there are scanners and other technical means,” he concluded.