Azeri parliament ratified Baku-Tbilisi-Kars construction agreementApril 10, 2007 - 18:21 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Azeri MPs ratified Tuesday an agreement on construction of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railroad and also approved the Tbilisi Memorandum "On Common vision of regional cooperation" between Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey.Milli Mejlis vice-speaker Valikh Aleskerov noted that the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars project is no less important for the region than Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline or Baku-Tbilisi-Erzrum gas pipeline. The railroad construction promotes development of the region's infrastructure, he said. "If 10 years ago a parliament of any state spoke out against the project we would get frightened. But the rate of development of our republic provides the possibility to implement this project despite attitude of other states," Aleskerov said, Day.az reports. Top stories Authorities said a total of 192 Azerbaijani troops were killed and 511 were wounded during Azerbaijan’s offensive. In 2023, the Azerbaijani government will increase the country’s defense budget by more than 1.1 billion manats ($650 million). The bill, published on Monday, is designed to "eliminate the shortcomings of an unreasonably broad interpretation of the key concept of "compatriot". The earthquake caused a temporary blackout, damaged many buildings and closed a number of rural roads. Partner news | Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. Ucom launches network modernization efforts in few regions of Armenia In particular, on March 28, the legacy Mobile Switching Subsystem will be replaced with a new one. |