Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia Armen Grigoryan reaffirmed that the term “corridor,” used by Azerbaijan to describe the road passing through Armenian territory, is unacceptable to the Armenian side, making the remarks at a panel titled “Armenia–Azerbaijan Lasting Peace: The Washington Agreement and a Joint Future,” attended also by Azerbaijani presidential assistant Hikmet Hajiyev, where Grigoryan stated that at the Washington summit the leaders of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the United States signed a document referring to the route as TRIPP, a term Armenia uses with confidence that it will create major opportunities for the region and beyond, while Hajiyev emphasized that Azerbaijan refers to the same project as the “Zangezur Corridor,” acknowledged Armenia’s different approach, and expressed hope that terminology would be the only disagreement, following the August 8 Washington declaration signed by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, U.S. President Donald Trump, and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, whose fourth point commits Armenia to work with the United States and mutually determined third parties to establish the framework for the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity (TRIPP) within Armenian territory, a process Pashinyan later told the National Assembly would see all details finalized by the end of the year, agreements reached in the first half of 2026, and construction of the so-called Trump Road begin in the second half of 2026 according to the established plan.
