US, Armenia pledge to move forward on corridor
The United States pledged on May 26 to move forward with Armenia on a planned corridor connecting parts of rival Azerbaijan, during a lightning visit by Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Rubio, returning from a four-day trip to India, met his Armenian counterpart during a refueling stop in the former Soviet Republic, which has long been allied with Moscow but has sought closer relations with the West.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has been working on a road-and-rail corridor initiative named after him, the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity (TRIPP), which would run through Armenia and connect Azerbaijan with its Nakhichevan exclave, cut off from Armenian territory.
Rubio initialed another step in the TRIPP project with the Armenian foreign minister, Ararat Mirzoyan.
