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Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway protocol is signed in Turkey
March 02, 2013 | 14:26
The protocol, with respect to accelerating the construction of the
Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway, is signed in Istanbul.
The respective document was authorized on Friday, during the
trilateral talks among the transport ministers of Georgia, Turkey, and
Azerbaijan.
Ziya Mammadov, the Azerbaijani Minister of Transportation, stated
that, `the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars project is not only economic, but it is
strategic, as well.'
`We are opening a new transport corridor that will connect Europe with
Asia,' he added.
In his turn, Turkey's Transport and Telecommunication Minister, Binali
Yildirim, informed that the main objective of this project is to
launch test passenger-transportation services within the current year.
Once the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway is built, the Kars-Nakhichevan
railway project will get underway, Gruzia Online news agency of
Georgia reports.
- See more at: http://news.am/eng/news/142755.html#sthash.bHuf8hQJ.dpuf
March 02, 2013 | 14:26
The protocol, with respect to accelerating the construction of the
Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway, is signed in Istanbul.
The respective document was authorized on Friday, during the
trilateral talks among the transport ministers of Georgia, Turkey, and
Azerbaijan.
Ziya Mammadov, the Azerbaijani Minister of Transportation, stated
that, `the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars project is not only economic, but it is
strategic, as well.'
`We are opening a new transport corridor that will connect Europe with
Asia,' he added.
In his turn, Turkey's Transport and Telecommunication Minister, Binali
Yildirim, informed that the main objective of this project is to
launch test passenger-transportation services within the current year.
Once the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway is built, the Kars-Nakhichevan
railway project will get underway, Gruzia Online news agency of
Georgia reports.
- See more at: http://news.am/eng/news/142755.html#sthash.bHuf8hQJ.dpuf