Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has announced that the TRIPP connectivity project envisages reopening the Meghri railway and establishing new transport and infrastructure links through Armenia’s territory.

Axar.az reports that Pashinyan made the remarks at a campaign event in the village of Goght, a day after Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio initialed a framework agreement on strategic cooperation concerning TRIPP aimed at enabling the project’s implementation.

He said the Armenia-U.S. agreement on TRIPP would be finalized within a month at the latest.

“U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in Armenia and, together with the foreign minister, initialed the framework agreement for the implementation of the TRIPP project. The agreement will be formally signed within a month at the latest,” Pashinyan said.

According to the prime minister, one of the project’s most visible components is the reopening of the Meghri railway.

“The Meghri railway will be reopened, and both Azerbaijan and Armenia will use it — Azerbaijan for transport links between Nakhchivan and mainland Azerbaijan, and Armenia for establishing a railway connection between the country’s northern and southern regions. Today, we do not have a railway running from south to north, specifically through the Syunik section, and we are going to obtain that railway,” the prime minister said.