Kyrgyz Ambassador: New geopolitical reality will help strengthen strategic partnership with Azerbaijan

Kairat Osmonaliev, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kyrgyz Republic to the Republic of Azerbaijan

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# 02 February 2023 13:49 (UTC +04:00)

"It is obvious that the new geopolitical reality in the South Caucasus and the expansion of transport and logistics opportunities will contribute to the strengthening of friendship and strategic partnership between the Kyrgyz Republic and the Republic of Azerbaijan," Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kyrgyz Republic to the Republic of Azerbaijan Kairat Osmonaliev said in an interview with APA while answering the question "The opening of the Zangezur corridor will be a very significant event both for the region and for the Turkic states and will unite them. Is your country expected to participate in this corridor? (freight, passenger transportation, etc.)."

The Diplomat emphasized that clause 22 of the Declaration on Strategic Partnership between the Kyrgyz Republic and the Republic of Azerbaijan states that the parties will promote bilateral and transit cargo transportation, including multimodal cargo transportation, using the potential of Azerbaijan's transport corridor: "In the Minutes of the mentioned 4th meeting of the IGC, this provision is also fixed and it is noted that the parties take into account the growth of cargo transportation from Asia to Europe and the need to diversify routes in Central Asia. In order to attract a large number of transit cargoes to the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway line, the Azerbaijani side expressed interest in sending the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway project (line) to Azerbaijan through Turkmenistan."

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