This topic is significant for determining, separately, the potential economic benefits of the Zangezur Corridor for the economies of Azerbaijan and Armenia. The corridor holds the potential to restore communications between Armenia and Azerbaijan and to provide the shortest possible transportation route from East to West and vice versa. As the primary economic and political locomotive of the region, and a country that has restored its territorial integrity and sovereignty, Azerbaijan regards the restoration of communications-emphasized in the trilateral statement-as one of its main priorities in the normalization of relations with Armenia.