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Magdalena Grono, the EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the crisis in Georgia, has welcomed the latest positive steps in the peace process between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
"Very much encouraged by the series of latest positive steps in the Azerbaijan-Armenia peace process, including the announcement by Azerbaijan on the lifting of restrictions on the transit of goods for Armenia via Azerbaijan, yesterday's meeting between Azerbaijani and Armenian Speakers in Geneva, and the planned roundtable discussions of Armenian and Azerbaijani civil society experts in Yerevan. The EU warmly welcomes these practical developments and is ready to support all such initiatives and additional confidence-building measures. We equally welcome the announced preparations for another Armenia-Türkiye meeting on restoration and relaunch of the Gyumri-Kars railway," Grono said on X.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev announced on Tuesday that his country had lifted “all restrictions” on the transit of goods to Armenia. The first such shipment was a consignment of Kazakh wheat.
Shortly afterward, Armenian Minister of Economy Gevorg Papoyan said that the first transit shipment of goods through Azerbaijani territory is expected to reach Armenia soon.
“Soon, the first batch of Kazakh wheat will enter Armenia via the Aktau–Baku route, followed by transit through Azerbaijani and Georgian railways. Peace has been established,” Papoyan said in a statement.
Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan welcomed Azerbaijan’s decision.
Speaker of Parliament of Armenia, Alen Simonyan, held a meeting with his Azerbaijani counterpart, Sahiba Gafarova, during the 151st Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in Geneva earlier that day.