DUSHANBE, Tajikistan, September 14. President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev spoke about a new area of cooperation between Azerbaijan and the Central Asia countries at the 5th Consultative Meeting of the Heads of State of Central Asia in Tajikistan, Trend reports.
"The Digital Silk Way project on the establishment of a fiber-optic infrastructure is the new cooperation sphere between our countries that we are actively working on," the head of state underlined.
"It is necessary to ensure optimization of tariffs and simplification and streamlining of regulatory and customs procedures in order to attract larger volume of cargo. Digitalization of the East-West transportation corridor is one the key factors in providing for transparency of transit shipping and creating equal opportunities for parties involved in the transportation process," President Ilham Aliyev added.