Following a US proposal to manage the disputed Zangezur Corridor, high-level reactions emerged from Turkey, France, and Armenia on July 15. The plan, originally proposed on July 11 by US Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack, suggested that the United States could oversee the 32-kilometer route connecting mainland Azerbaijan to its Nakhchivan exclave for a 100-year lease to facilitate peace negotiations.

A source from the administration of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated that Ankara had no knowledge of any updated US plans to manage the transport corridor and therefore could not comment. On the same day, French President Emmanuel Macron, following a meeting with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in Paris, emphasized that a prompt peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan "would open a new page for all countries and peoples in the region and beyond."

Also on July 15, Nazeli Baghdasaryan, the Spokesperson for the Prime Minister of Armenia, formally denied the reports. She reiterated that Armenia's position remains unchanged, stating that Yerevan addresses the unblocking of regional infrastructure solely within the framework of its own sovereignty, territorial integrity, and jurisdiction. "We cannot discuss any other logic. The option mentioned by the US Ambassador is impossible," she stated.