The unblocking of transport routes in the South Caucasus creates tremendous opportunities for cooperation, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov said, Trend reports.

The minister made the statement while speaking at the panel discussion entitled ‘South Caucasus: New Opportunities for Regional Peace and Cooperation’ within the framework of the Diplomatic Forum in Antalya (Turkey).

The project company is ready to cooperate with all interested gas distribution companies and industrial customers, which will allow businesses and households to benefit from natural gas at competitive prices.

Minister of Defense of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Colonel General Zakir Hasanov met with Raimonds Bergmanis, a member of the Latvian delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly on June 17, Trend reports referring to the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry.

During the meeting, the minister of defense noted that the Azerbaijani-Latvian military cooperation has been successfully implementing both within NATO’s various programs and on a bilateral basis.

As the Secretary General of the Turkic Council, I welcome the signing of the Shusha Declaration on Allied Relations between the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Republic of Turkey on 15 June 2021 in Shusha city, one of the ancient cradles of the Turkic culture. 

The Ashgabat-based At-Abraý Economic Society, also known as TURKMENLINE, started in the riverway season the sea cargo shipping service between Turkey and Turkmenistan.

The European Union welcomes the actions taken by Armenia and Azerbaijan and facilitated by Georgia that led to the release by Azerbaijan of 15 Armenian detainees and the handing over by Armenia of maps of mined areas on Saturday, Josep Borrell, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy said in a statement.

Türkmengaz State Concern, the national natural gas company of Turkmenistan, has paid off its entire debt to China. The loans were used for the implementation of projects aimed at the construction of the Turkmenistan-China gas pipeline and phased development the world's largest gas field, Galkynysh.

The Port of Baku and Batumi Multimodal Terminal have signed an Agreement to facilitate fertilizer transit via the Middle Corridor, Trend reports referring to the port's message on Twitter.

A Memorandum of Understanding was signed today between “Baku International Sea Trade Port” CJSC (aka Port of Baku) Trammo Inc., and “Wondernet Express Investment Group”, which owns and operates the Batumi Multimodal Fertilizer Terminal.

The 84th meeting of the government delegations of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan’s Demarcation Commission took place on June 7-11, 2021, in the city of Almaty, stated on the website of the Kazakh Foreign Ministry, Kazinform reports.

The sides continued the preparation of draft outcome documents on state border demarcation and discussed the draft agreement between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan on the demarcation of the Kazakh-Uzbek state border.

The next meeting is set to take place in Uzbekistan.

Southern Gas Corridor may help to resolve some regional and global energy issues, Trend quoted Kurt Donnelly, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Energy Resources, U.S. Department of State, as saying.

Addressing the 5th Annual Trans-Caspian Forum, Donnelly noted that for decades now there have been repeated efforts to find a way to include Turkmenistan gas into the Southern Gas Corridor or in other ways to be exported to markets in Europe.