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.