Azerbaijan represented at 5th Meeting of Transport Ministers of Cooperation Council of Turkic-speaking States

The 5th meeting of the Transport Ministers of the Cooperation Council of Turkic-speaking States (CCTS, Turkic Council) was held in Budapest, Hungary.

 

The event was attended by delegations from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Hungary, Turkey and Uzbekistan.

 

The Ministers held discussions on the measures to be taken for facilitating the transport and transit operations along the Trans-Caspian Corridor in the post-pandemic era, as well as the Agreement on International Combined Freight Transport between the Member States of the Cooperation Council of Turkic-speaking States.

 

They also considered the possibility of organizing the “Road Demonstration Tour (Road Trade Caravan)” planned to be conducted across the Trans-Caspian Corridor, the application of e-permits and e-CMR (international consignment note) between the Member States, the process of creating “twinned ports” within the CCTS and other issues.

 

The head of the Azerbaijani delegation, Deputy Minister of Digital Development and Transport Rahman Hummatov made a speech at the meeting.

 

In his speech, the Deputy Minister spoke about the development of transport communications in the new realities and opportunities that appeared in the region after the 44-day Patriotic War, as a result of which the occupied lands of Azerbaijan were liberated, as well as the role of the Zangezur corridor in expanding the transit potential of our country and reconstruction and construction of infrastructure destroyed as a result of 30 years of occupation.

 

Rahman Hummatov noted that the Zangezur corridor, in addition to connecting Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic with the rest of Azerbaijan, will expand transport integration in the South Caucasus, as well as provide the shortest land route from Asia to Europe.

 

The Deputy Minister informed the participants about the measures taken by Azerbaijan to facilitate transport and transit operations along the Trans-Caspian International Transport Corridor.

 

Touching upon the issues of digitalization of transport and transit operations, Rahman Hummatov emphasized that in order to achieve full digitalization of corridors passing through the participating countries, it is important to integrate digital platforms developed in different countries.

 

It should be noted that the 10th meeting of the CCTS Working Group on Transport Development was held on October 13.