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Photo: Alexander Ryumin / Tasv Moscow In the middle of the week, a meeting of Deputy Prime Ministers of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, on which the creation of a transport corridor in the South Caucasus will be discussed. Road restoration was one of the cease-fire conditions, writes
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On January 27, the Vice-Premieres of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan are planning to meet in Moscow to discuss the construction of transport links in the South Caucasus, RBC told two sources - in the governments of Russia and Armenia. From the Russian side, Alexey Overchuk will take part in the negotiations, with the Armenian - Mger Grigoryan, with the Azerbaijani-Shahin Mustafayev, the Russian diplomatic source passed. RBK sent requests to the representative of Overchuk, to the Government of Armenia and Azerbaijan. Railways spokesman refused comment. The parties agreed to create such negotiation format on January 11 - on the first time after the end of the war in Nagorno-Karabakh, the head of the three states of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the premiere of Armenia Nikola Pashinyan and the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev. The main task of the format participants is to determine what needs to be built or restored for complete defrosting of the transport links in the region. The premieres will have to discuss several possible projects at once, in particular, the construction of the railway through the territory of Armenia, which will connect Azerbaijan and Nakhichevan (Azerbaijan Exclave), as well as Armenia and Russia. Baku, among other things, would like to achieve construction in the same car highway, RBC said the Russian diplomatic source.
Instead of Armenia should get railway with Russia. The countries have no direct message - before it was carried out through Georgia, but after the war of 2008 it was interrupted. In addition, the Vice Premieres will discuss the proposal to associate Armenia and Iran by rail through Nakhichevan, the source of RBC told. At a meeting of January 11, the heads of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed that the Working Party should submit a list and schedule of project implementation until March 1.