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Turkish prime minister due in Georgia for railway project signing ceremony

Iran Materials 5 February 2007 16:09 (UTC +04:00)

(www.cihannews.com) - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will leave for Tbilisi on Wednesday to attend the signing ceremony of an agreement for Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway project.

The framework agreement for construction of a railway, which will connect Turkey , Georgia and Azerbaijan, will be signed on Feb. 7 in the Georgian capital.

Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev and Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili will also take part in the signing ceremony.

Construction of the Kars-Tbilisi-Baku railway, which will connect the railway network systems of Turkey , Georgia and Azerbaijan , will begin in June and is expected to be completed in two years.

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