PRIME MINISTER OF AZERBAIJAN DISCUSSES JOINT RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION PROJECT IN TBILISI
As earlier reported, Prime Minister of Azerbaijan Artur Rasizade is visiting Tbilisi to discuss issues of cooperation in energy, transport, trade and environment at the Georgian-Azerbaijani intergovernmental economic commission’s meeting.
The two delegations discuss the regional projects that are being implemented by Georgia together with Azerbaijan, including the construction of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway and the Nabucco gas pipeline.
After the meeting the two countries’ Prime Ministers Grigol Mgaloblishvili and Artur Rasizade signed a protocol that “covers a wide range of bilateral relations and will play a considerable role in stronger cooperation.”
As for the construction of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway, PM of Georgia Mgaloblishvili said “this project has big prospects” and will be of great importance “beyond the region”.
The Azerbaijani Prime Minister said “the project is being implemented at a fast pace and will be probably completed by 2010.”
The Agreement on the construction of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars pipeline was signed by Azerbaijan, Turkey and Georgia on February 7, 2007. Under the project a 170-kilometre rail section from Marabda to Akhalkalaki will be reconstructed and a 30-kilometre section from Akhalkalaki to the Turkish border will be built anew by November 2009. On the Turkish territory a 75-kilometre railway will be built. The construction works began last July.
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