“We are now working on a daily basis to launch the implementation of the TRIPP project on the ground,” Pashinyan said, calling it a cornerstone in changing the economic environment of Armenia and the region, and Armenpress added in reported speech that the border with Türkiye is expected to open in the near future and railway connections with Azerbaijan and Türkiye with it. The border line is the agency’s reported speech, and the reactor line is the prime minister’s own: no decision yet. He also named a railway from the Persian Gulf to the Black Sea, the North-South road and east-west roads along it, and said pipelines and power lines are under discussion within the Crossroads of Peace.
Armenia had planned average growth of 7% over the previous five years and achieved 7.9%, GDP in 2025 was about 53% above 2018, and the plan for the next five years is 6% a year, he said. The forum, organised by the Oxford Alumni Business Club of Armenia with the government, Enterprise Armenia and the British-Armenian Chamber of Commerce, gathered around 2,000 participants including the British diplomatic mission, five months after the memorandum on a strategic partnership with the United Kingdom was signed in May, by the same account.
The border line is the agency’s reported speech, and the reactor line is the prime minister’s own: no decision yet.
“On the question of the new nuclear plant we have not yet taken a final decision. We do not rule out the Russian option, and we do not rule out other options either,” Pashinyan told Infocom’s programme Ctrl Z, Interfax reported at 21:57 Moscow time. Interest in a plant grows with investment programmes, he said: Amazon is ready to invest in Armenia but needs a 1,000 MW station with a stable supply around the clock, and a country with an electricity surplus a year ago now has a deficit after two large data centres opened following the memorandum he signed with the US president on 8 August 2025.
Modular reactors alone will in all likelihood not be enough, he added, and the deficit now has to be met by imports or by generation at home.
Rosatom’s Alexei Likhachev said in Yerevan on 29 September that a new unit should be at least 1 GW and that the company had made a concrete proposal for a VVER-1000, Interfax recalled, while Armenia’s strategic partnership document with the United States provides for studying a small modular reactor, and Sargent & Lundy completed a pre-feasibility study in May on replacing the Metsamor unit with American small modular reactors, by the same report.