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Turkey needs to return to Asia, but this does not mean that we will turn our backs on the West, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavushoglu said.

Cavushoglu stressed that in addition to traditional threats, there are now epidemics, migration, climate change, cyber threats and asymmetric threats, the multilateral system has weakened and cannot respond to changes and transformations.

According to him, competition in the virtual environment, energy, technology and trade has increased.

The cargo is transported and transited between Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan along the Europe-Caucasus-Asia (TRACECA) transport corridor as usually, Rufat Bayramov, Permanent Representative (National Secretary) of the Permanent Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Commission TRACECA stated.

Bayramov said that cargo is transported both to Azerbaijan and from Azerbaijan to Kazakhstan by ferry and railway as usually.

The capabilities of the Europe-Caucasus-Asia (TRACECA) transport corridor should be expanded even more, Ukrainian Minister of Infrastructure Vladyslav Krykliy said.

Krykliy made the remark at the event in Baku dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the signing the Basic Multilateral Agreement on International Transport for Development of the Europe-Caucasus-Asia Corridor and the 14th meeting of the Permanent Secretariat of the TRACECA Intergovernmental Commission (IGC), Trend.az reports on December 6-th, 2019.