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.
May I suggest that you supply maps for all the geographical info you provide. Most people don’t know central Asia that well.
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A map has been added per your suggestion.
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Azerbaijan offers to supply Iraqi oil to the world market
https://iraqidinarchat.net/?p=71063
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Thanks once again. I’ve just added these comments from 2008 to the article on Bryza. They are his words:
“The East-West Corridor we had been building from Turkey and the Black Sea through Georgia and Azerbaijan and across the Caspian became the strategic air corridor, and the lifeline, into Afghanistan allowing the United States and our coalition partners to conduct Operation Enduring Freedom.”
“Our goal is to develop a ‘Southern Corridor’ of energy infrastructure to transport Caspian and Iraqi oil and gas to Turkey and Europe. The Turkey-Greece-Italy (TGI) and Nabucco natural gas pipelines are key elements of the Southern Corridor.”
“Potential gas supplies in Turkmenistan and Iraq can provide the crucial additional volumes beyond those in Azerbaijan to realize the Southern Corridor. Washington and [Turkey] are working together with Baghdad to help Iraq develop its own large natural gas reserves for both domestic consumption and for export to Turkey and the EU.”
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Thank you
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