MOSCOW: Moscow and Baku intend to implement a number of regional projects involving Iran and Turkey, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Azeri counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov said.
At a joint news conference following talks in Moscow, Lavrov said Russia supports the active implementation of the projects, which include the construction of the North-South transport corridor involving Iran and the East-West corridor engaging Turkey.
“The Russia-Azerbaijan-Iran energy bridge is also a very relevant and demanded project,” Lavrov said.
He said he is sure that the three countries will implement the project by uniting their electrical power generating and transporting systems.
Azerbaijan considers cooperation in a trilateral or quadrilateral format very promising, particularly the integration of the three energy systems, Bayramov said during the news conference.
Within the North-South corridor, Azerbaijan has completed a new highway between Baku and the Iranian border, and in the next few months will finish building another highway connecting Baku with the Russian border, Bayramov added.
