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Armenia’s “Crossroads of Peace” lacks substance to deliver regional integration [COMMENTARY]

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19.04.2025

Armenia’s proposed “Crossroads of Peace” initiative has stirred public and expert debate as Yerevan attempts to project the idea of a regional logistics hub involving its neighboring countries. Framed as a peace-oriented infrastructure project, it is being marketed as a sign of Armenia’s willingness to cooperate and integrate. But how realistic is this project when analyzed through political, economic, geographic, and timing lenses?

Economic expert Eldaniz Amirov, commenting to Azernews, dissected the project’s viability from multiple perspectives. From a political perspective, Amirov said that the absence of trust and ongoing intra-regional tensions have rendered the political climate unsuitable for this project. According to him, Armenia’s aggressive policies and inconsistent regional stance over the past decades have significantly eroded confidence in its intentions.

“The lack of trust and the existence of intra-regional contradictions........

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