MOSCOW, November 5. /TASS/. The Zangezur corridor and the North-South transport corridor will not compete with each other, Russian Security Council Secretary Sergey Shoigu said.
"I believe that both roads not only have a right to exist, but are necessary for connecting Azerbaijan with its regions, and creating transport corridors for trade between the countries," he said following the 13th meeting of security council secretaries of Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries, which is taking place in Moscow.
The North-South corridor connects the ports of the deep south with the Arctic Ocean, and the Northern Sea Route, Shoigu noted. "I don't see anything wrong with it, and [there's no] competition if someone takes something around, or bypassing it," he said, adding that Russia is a vast country with a highly developed transport route, and "any road is always a good thing."