There will be no war. There will be negotiations. If Meghri road is  so important for world, let`s build this road and give: Samvel  Babayan

ArmInfo.The process of delimiting the Armenian-Azerbaijani border leads to a dead end if the importance of the Meghri road for Baku is not considered, said former commander of the Armed Forces of Artsakh Samvel Babayan.

"The moment will come when Baku will say that it will not leave the heights of Jermuk, will not leave these territories and will not do this or that thing. because they want it that way . Everything leads to conflict," he said on air at .

According to the former head of Artsakh Armed Forces, the reason for all this is Baku's desire to get a road connecting it with Nakhichevan through the Armenian Meghri.

Thus, according to him, Baku continues to insist on building a road through Meghri along the border with Iran along the Araks River. "They are so confident in themselves that they are building a highway on both sides: "Turkey, on its side, up to the border of Nakhichevan, Azerbaijan, on its side, along Horadiz and up to the border of Armenia," he said.

To avoid conflict in the future, Samvel Babayan proposes to negotiate today around this road with Georgia, Iran, Turkey, and Azerbaijan. "Solve the issue and delimit the border on the basis of maps of the USSR from 1925-26, according to which they entered the USSR and the area of Armenia was 30,940 sq.  km," he suggests.

"Instead of following this path, or building a professional army, we wake up every morning and say, look, if we don't give up these villages, there will be a war, if we don't give up these heights, there will be a war.

And I say, don't scare these people; there won't be a war. There will be negotiations. If this road is so important for Baku and Ankara, as well as the whole world, including Moscow, at this stage, let's build this road and give it, on the principle of the road to Kaliningrad, through the territory of the sovereign Republic of Armenia," summed up the former commander of the Armed Forces of Artsakh , also pointing to the future economic benefits of opening the road.