Azerbaijan Embarks on Construction of Nakhchivan Railway (Part Two)
Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 18 Issue: 59
A current stretch of rail in Azerbaijan (Source: Financial Tribune)
The unblocking of the Zangezur corridor will have wide-ranging geopolitical reverberations for both the directly concerned states, Armenia and Azerbaijan, and surrounding countries. For Azerbaijan, the reopening of the corridor has geostrategic significance in multiple domains. This route was the most direct land passage between mainland Azerbaijan and its Nakhchivan exclave soon after World War I, when the historical Zangezur (now Syunik) province was granted to Armenia and the autonomous Nakhchivan territory came under Azerbaijani protection under the Treaty of Kars (1921). The termination of the Zangezur land route connection with Nakhchivan following the breakout of the First Karabakh War of the early 1990s, however, seriously isolated the Azerbaijani exclave. Since then, Baku could physi
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Russia plans to resume charter flights to Sharm El Sheikh, Hurghada soon
The Russian foreign minister highly praised grandiose joint efforts of the Russian and Egyptian specialists in this area and also highlighted good prospects for bilateral cooperation in other fields
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MOSCOW, April 11. /TASS/. Moscow hopes that charter flights fly again from Russia to the Egyptian resort cities of Sharm El Sheikh and Hurghada at the soonest possible date, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram. I would like to reaffirm our interest in the resumption of regular air travel between Russia and the Egyptian resort cities, he said. I expect that charter flights from Russia to Sharm El Sheikh and Hurghada will be resumed as early as in the immediate future, he said.