{"id":49313,"date":"2025-06-01T10:30:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T05:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=49313"},"modified":"2025-06-10T10:51:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T05:21:54","slug":"zangezur-corridor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/zangezur-corridor\/","title":{"rendered":"Zangezur Corridor"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Zangezur Corridor Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>The Zangezur Corridor has become a topic of discussion following a recent meeting between Armenia&#8217;s Security Council Secretary and India&#8217;s National Security Advisor in New Delhi.<\/p>\n<h2>About Zangezur Corridor<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a proposed transport route designed to\u00a0<strong>connect Azerbaijan\u2019s mainland with its exclave<\/strong>, the\u00a0<strong>Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic<\/strong>, bypassing Armenia&#8217;s Syunik Province.<\/li>\n<li>Zangezur, which is currently part of southern Armenia, has been a disputed territory since World War I.<\/li>\n<li>On Azerbaijan\u2019s side, the corridor would be integrated into the\u00a0<strong>Horadiz-Agbend transport highway<\/strong>\u00a0and railway network. On Turkey\u2019s side, it would link into the\u00a0<strong>Nakhchivan-Igdir-Kars railway<\/strong>\u00a0and highway, providing a direct land route to Anatolia and beyond.<\/li>\n<li>It carries significant economic and strategic weight for the\u00a0<strong>South Caucasus and beyond.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The project aims to enhance\u00a0<strong>Azerbaijan\u2019s trade<\/strong>\u00a0with\u00a0<strong>Turkey and Europe<\/strong>\u00a0by improving logistics infrastructure, reducing transportation costs, and significantly cutting travel time between Azerbaijan and Nakhchivan.<\/li>\n<li>The Zangezur Corridor plays a crucial role in increasing regional connectivity \u2014 not only throughout Caucasia, but also across greater Eurasia, joining\u00a0<strong>Turkish, Russian, Central Asian<\/strong>, Iranian and Armenian territories and linking Europe to Asia.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Zangezur Corridor FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong>\u00a0Where is Zangezur located?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0Zangezur is a historical and geographical region in Eastern Armenia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:<\/strong>\u00a0What is the land corridor between Armenia and Azerbaijan?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0The Lachin corridor was a mountain road in Azerbaijan that linked Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deccanherald.com\/opinion\/turkey-azerbaijan-and-zangezur-corridor-whats-at-stake-for-india-3558673\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zangezur Corridor is a proposed route linking Azerbaijan to its Nakhchivan exclave, bypassing Armenia\u2019s Syunik Province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":49326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,22,23,697],"class_list":{"0":"post-49313","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"tag-zangezur-corridor","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}