Baku, Azerbaijan, Jan. 18
By Huseyn Valiyev – Trend:
Participants of the Trans-Eurasian Information Super Highway (TASIM) project, construction project are preparing a work plan for the current year, a source familiar with the project told Trend Jan. 18.
The source said that the details of the upcoming work as part of the annual working plan may be announced in late January.
Discussion of the subsequent stages of work on the project was held in Baku in December 2017.
An important subject of discussions as part of the meeting was the issue of laying the Caspian segment of the cableway between Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan.
The parties will hold bilateral negotiations in 2018 on laying the underwater segment in order to speed up the implementation of the work.
The TASIM construction project envisages the creation of a major transit link from Frankfurt to Hong Kong. Russia (Rostelecom), Kazakhstan (KazTransCom), Turkey (TurkTelecom) and China (China Telecom) are also involved in TASIM project. Azerbaijan is represented in the project by AzInTelecom LLC.