President Ilham Aliyev comments on implementation of Zangezur corridor

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev spoke about the implementation of the Zangezur corridor while receiving the participants of the meeting of the Prime Ministers/Vice Presidents of the member states of the Organization of Turkic States.

The President noted that regarding the Zangezur Corridor, approximately 90 percent of the highway and about 70 percent of the railway have been completed: " I hope that this project will be fully implemented in the near future. We are also pleased that construction of the Kars–Nakhchivan railway has begun in Türkiye. The coordinated and synchronized implementation of these projects will open a new international corridor — a branch of the Middle Corridor. The railway infrastructure we have built is designed to transport 15 million tons of cargo at the initial stage, with potential for further increase. In any case, the opening of a new corridor with a capacity of 15 million tons is of great importance not only for our countries but also for the wider region. Here too, we are pursuing a very serious and responsible approach — protecting our national interests while offering new transport routes to the world. This once again demonstrates that the purpose of our countries and our organization is peace, cooperation, stability, mutual respect, and mutual benefit."