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A meeting of the railway management of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Uzbekistan has been held in Tashkent, the press service of Azerbaijan Railways said.During the meeting various options for railway development, increase of transit delivery volumes, development of cooperation within TRACECA, the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars project as well as cooperation in the development
The world press on the role of Russia, allies of Turkey, and the US-Iranian complicated relations
Archpriest of the Russian Orthodox Church Vsevolod Chaplin, Chairman of the Synodal Department for Church and Society of the interaction of the Moscow Patriarchate, a member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, spoke about the development of the ROC's religious cooperation with the countries of the South Caucasus - Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.
Turkey is ready to open its border with Armenia in return for Yerevan ceding from at least one occupied region of Azerbaijan, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said at a meeting with representatives of national minorities. Armenians who live in Turkey are a part of the country as well, and relations between Ankara and Yerevan should not adversely affect them, he said.
OSCE Chairman, First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic will discuss settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with officials in Baku and Yerevan. His visit to Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia is scheduled for the coming months, Trend reports, referring to a diplomatic source.
Yesterday, Baku hosted a round-table conference entitled “Post-Soviet space: civilization aspects of modern crises and conflicts” organized by the Baku office of the North-South Politological Center and Vestnik Kavkaza. Experts and politologists from Azerbaijan, Russia and Ukraine agreed that Russia had started reconsidering relations with other post-Soviet states after the situation in Ukraine, trying to rectify and remove existing flaws.
Big railway network
For the agricultural producers of Turkey there are no big or small, developed or undeveloped regions of the world, they are ready to develop relations with all interested countries, especially if it is a question of the near neighbors …
Today the head of Dagestan, Ramazan Abdulatipov, stated that Dagestan and Azerbaijan are implementing several new projects, including construction of factories near Derbent and a sporting center in the town.Abdulatipov spoke about economic ties between near-border of districts of Dagestan and near-border regions of Azerbaijan and Georgia.
Alexey Sekarev, the head of the expert group of the territorial cooperation program of the Eastern Partnership, said at a conference in Tbilisi that tenders for joint development projects of Eastern Partnership states will be organized, …
Experts see greater significance in the meeting of foreign ministers than mere gas talks
"The Caucasus is our everything! This is Russia's jewel and a very big intersection of life, where the roots of different nations intertwine. And people should be able to live together and create prestige for the country," People's Artist of Russia and artistic director of the ensemble 'Turetsky Choir', Mikhail Turetsky, says about the North Caucasus.
Georgian Interior Minister Alexander Chikaidze met Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev today, Trend reports.Aliyev reminded about his recent visit to Georgia and noted the importance of strengthening strategic cooperation between the two states. The president and the minister exchanged opinions about development of cooperation between Azerbaijan and Georgia, emphasizing on contacts of their Interior Ministries.
The Muslims Union of Georgia has organized an international conference on Prophet Mohammad in Batumi. Over 600 people from Bosnia, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Georgia have decided to attend it, Georgia Online reports.U.S. Goodwill Ambassador Johan Candelin, an official of the Caucasus Muslims Administration Ali Aliyev, Georgian Mufti Jamal Paksadze are among the highlights of the conference.
The West believes it is necessary
Kyrgyz ex-President Askar Akayev said at the Moscow Economic Forum that large geopolitical players were fighting for integration of post-Soviet states in their own economy. He emphasized that there was no other way to develop, besides integration. The ex-president pointed out Moldova and Georgia who were among the targets Europe tried to drag into its economy. Akayev assures that only strong regional integration would help Russia and CIS states to achieve world-level development.
Azerbaijan is the largest export market for Georgia. Products worth $37,086,700 were exported to Azerbaijan in January 2014, dropping by $9 million, compared with January 2013, Trend reports.Azerbaijan exported products and services for …
Georgia and Azerbaijan are developing a shared information system for their customs offices, according to Vakhtang Lashkaradze, Head of the Center for Information Technologies of the Income Service of the Georgian Ministry for Finances, …
