From features in today’s Trend News Agency of Azerbaijan. Qatar is effectively the fourth “brother” in the Azerbaijan-Pakistan-Turkey military axis. See: Rehearsal for war with Armenia, Greece and India: Turkey inaugurates NATO-backed bloc from Balkans to Chinese border.

Hungary has joined the Turkic Council which includes Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. Likely new members are Finland, Mongolia, Turkmenistan, an independent Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and Balkan states Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo and North Macedonia. Nations with Turkic minorities like Bulgaria, Georgia, Tajikistan and Ukraine are also candidates. Turkey already has employed its military to seize and occupy parts of Cyprus, Iraq, Syria and Libya.

The Zangazur (Zangezur) Corridor is a project to connect the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic to the rest of Azerbaijan through the Syunik region of Armenia where Azerbaijan moved over 1,000 troops this May.

Azerbaijan participates in Budapest business forum

Azerbaijan took part in a business forum in Budapest, Hungary…on Sept. 24.

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Members of the Azerbaijani delegation informed the representatives of Hungary, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan about the economic opportunities in Azerbaijan, the business environment and the investment potential of the territories liberated from Armenian occupation [in the 2020 Second Karabakh War].

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The business forum was organized by the Turkish Chamber of Commerce and the Hungarian Export Promotion Agency (HEPA).

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Foreign ministers of Kyrgyzstan, Qatar discuss whole range of bilateral co-op

On the margins of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly in New York Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kyrgyzstan Ruslan Kazakbaev met with Sultan bin Saad Al Muraikhi, the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of Qatar….

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The ministers separately discussed regional security issues and the development of mutual approaches to the situation in Afghanistan.

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Zangazur corridor to expand list of existing trade, transport routes – Azerbaijani FM

The Zangazur corridor between Azerbaijan and Turkey will expand the list of existing trade and transport routes, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov said….

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The minister informed the meeting participants about the possibilities of large-scale transport projects initiated by Azerbaijan, including the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway, the Baku International Sea Trade Port and others.

According to him, Azerbaijan continues to take steps to create the necessary infrastructure to become an international logistics and transit hub.

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Bayramov also stressed that the resolution of Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict opens up new perspectives….

The emerging transport hub to be created in the Azerbaijani territories liberated from Armenian occupation [in the 2020 Second Karabakh War] will strengthen the position of the entire South Caucasus within the scope of Trans-Eurasian transport projects, added the minister.