BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 11. With the start of construction and commissioning of the new China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan-Caspian railway, there will be opportunities to increase trade and reduce transportation costs, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev said making a press statement together with President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov, Trend reports.
" We discussed in detail a wide range of issues from cultural and humanitarian cooperation, economic interaction, transport interaction to issues related to education and high technologies. I must say that two Azerbaijani satellites, Azersky and Azerspace-1, have been providing services to Kyrgyz partners for some time now, and we have identified further ways to develop cooperation in this area. In the transport and transit sector, with the start of construction and commissioning of the new China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan-Caspian railway, there will be opportunities to increase trade and reduce transportation costs. We congratulate fraternal Kyrgyzstan, as well as other partner countries, on the launch of this important project," the head of state said.