Georgian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Teymuraz Sharashenidze said today that other states willing to join the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars Railway project will need approval of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey.
Armenia will be able to use the railway from Georgia to Asia Minor as a freighting route, Armenian Deputy Minister for Transportation Artashes Avetisyan said. But the two states have not resolved the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Azerbaijani Transportation Minister Ziya Mamedov said that Azerbaijan was the initiator and financed the project. Exploitation of the railway by Armenia will still need permission of Azerbaijan, Mamedov noted.
