PRIME MINISTER OF AZERBAIJAN DISCUSSES JOINT RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION PROJECT IN TBILISI

Baku, 05 December,(AzerTAj)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.
(FA)

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