"Zangezur Corridor" will be provided with an alternative route and capacity: Turkish Transport Minister

Turkish Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uraloğlu announced that the "Zangezur Corridor" will provide an alternative route and capacity, the Turkish Anadolu Agency reports.

"Our current Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway connection has a certain capacity. The Baku-Tbilisi-Kars line is a line that simultaneously provides a connection with the Black Sea ports through the territory of Georgia. But cargo can also be transported on a direct line. We proceed from the fact that there should be an alternative - a line that starts from Kars and reaches Igdir-Diluj, and from there to Nakhichevan.

"It is 43 kilometers through Armenia, 61 kilometers through Iran. Then the line passes from Azerbaijan to the Far East through the Caspian Sea. Work on this project will start in the coming months. There is a railway line in Nakhichevan, it will be renovated. This line will provide additional capacity by creating an alternative route," Uraloglu said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will travel to St. Petersburg, where he will hold meetings with the leaders of the CIS countries in the coming days. The multilateral program is expected to take place mainly on December 25-26, TASS reported.

"On December 26, our president will participate in the session of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Union Council at Igor, which will be chaired by Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan. Armenia holds the presidency of the EAEU this year. The event will also be attended by the presidents of Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan, as well as observer countries Uzbekistan and Cuba," Ushakov said.

The leaders of the CIS countries will gather together on December 25. The informal New Year's meeting is a long-standing tradition. This year was no exception.

According to the program, Putin will summarize the results of the Russian presidency of the CIS in 2024 at the summit.