Iran hints at new infrastructure necessary for new transit ways with Azerbaijan - Trend.Az
Date
3/14/2022 5:54:37 AM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 14
By Elnur Baghishov – Trend:
New transit opportunities will arise between Azerbaijan and
Iran, if the necessary infrastructure is built, Spokesman of the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran, Saeed Khatibzadeh said in
press conference, Trend reports citing the ministry.
The spokesman noted that over the past few months, relations
between the two countries have intensified. As a result, a meeting
of the joint commission was held and a document was signed.
Khatibzadeh added that for the past 30 years, Azerbaijani
citizens have been using Iran's part of the Bilasuvar border
checkpoint (exists on both Iranian and Azerbaijani territory),
traveling to and from Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan.
'After the end of the [Karabakh] war, the issue of crossing the
territory of Iran using a point closer to Nakhchivan was raised,'
he said.
On March 11, 2022, the 15th meeting of the State Commission on
Cooperation in Economic, Trade and Humanitarian Spheres between
Azerbaijan and Iran was held in Baku.
After the meeting, a Memorandum of Understanding on establishing
new communication links between East Zangazur economic region and
the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic through the territory of Iran,
as well as, a number of documents have been signed between the
Government of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Government of the
Islamic Republic of Iran.
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