Azerbaijan intensifies work on construction of railway stretching to Zangezur corridor
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AA): Azerbaijan continues intensively the construction of a railway that will pass through the Zangezur corridor.
Once constructed, the corridor will connect Azerbaijan’s western provinces and Nakhchivan via Armenia, further stretching to China, Central Asia, the Caspian Sea, the Caucasus and Türkiye.
After the 2nd Karabakh War in November 2020, the leaders of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Russia signed an agreement to open a railway between Azerbaijan and Nakhchivan, a land-locked autonomous republic located west of Baku.
In the latest meeting on May 25, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in Moscow decided to ask their deputy prime ministers to smooth out the technical issues on the project.
Azerbaijan State Railways is carrying out the construction of the Horadiz-Agbend line, which stretches from the town of Horadiz in Fuzuli province to the Armenian border, and the town of Agbend in Zangilan province.
On the Horadiz-Agbend line, 78% of the project design and 38% of the construction has been completed and 64 kilometers (39.7 miles) of rails have been laid together with the side roads. The 30-meter area on both sides of the line was cleared of mines.
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