BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 22. President of
Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev arrived on a state go to to Uzbekistan on
June 21, Trend
reviews.
During the go to, bilateral conferences had been held, and plenty of
vital paperwork figuring out the additional growth of
relations between the 2 nations had been signed.
Head of the International Relations Department on the Uzbek
University of World Economy and Diplomacy Ulugbek Khasanov
commenting on the go to mentioned that fairly complicated and intensely
turbulent fashionable worldwide relations set the problems of making
sustainable and resistant fashions of nationwide economies as very important
ones, which was confirmed by the present Azerbaijani-Uzbek summit
in Tashkent metropolis.
“The assembly of the presidents of two nations has proven a excessive
degree of integration of regional economies within the South Caucasus,
the place Azerbaijan performs the important thing function, and in Central Asia with a
related place of Uzbekistan on the earth financial system, which additionally
confirms their strategic involvement in world logistics, and this,
in fact, has grow to be one of many central themes of the bilateral
dialogue,” Khasanov famous.
Besides, the professional mentioned that, this geo-economic benefit of
Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan determines different potentialities for
sustaining the secure regional and world provide chains.
Khasanov famous that the logistics potential of the 2 nations
within the South Caucasus and Central and South Asia permits connecting
the North-South and East-West corridors with European
nations.
The above potential additionally permits to attach the north-west of
Russia via the ports of Astrakhan and Olya with the ports of
Iran, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, and transiting items
from the Pacific ports of China to Europe, the states of the
Persian Gulf, in addition to Pakistan and India.
“In the present troublesome worldwide political situations,
the routes of mainland worldwide transport flows present direct
communication between Northern, Western, Central and Southern
Europe and the nations of the Caucasus, Transcaucasia, the Black
Sea and Caspian areas, the Middle East, Central Asia and components of
the Asia-Pacific area, together with the Northeast Asia area,”
Khasanov famous.
“Both Europe and China are strategically within the
participation of the nations of the South Caucasus and Central
Asia in growth of the pan-Eurasian transport community in
normal and in this system for the revival of the Great Silk Road,
particularly as a result of connection of the latter with the components of
commerce and vitality provide,” he famous.
He additionally mentioned that many Turkish corporations, being extraordinarily
concerned with becoming a member of the Eurasian transport cargo flows, carried
out reconstruction of the 44-kilometer part of Azerbaijan’s
Alat-Gazimammad freeway (80 kilometers south of Baku), in addition to
a number of sections of the Azerbaijani railways being a part of the
Europe-Caucasus-Asia transport hall.
“Azerbaijan took actual steps again within the Nineties to implement a
transport undertaking along with Georgia and Türkiye to create the
shortest railway route on the Kars-Akhalkalaki-Tbilisi-Baku line.
In the brand new situations, Azerbaijan is figuring out a transport
hall which can hyperlink the Lesser Caucasus within the northeast with
the Anatolian Highlands within the southwest,” Khasanov mentioned.
“This is concerning the Zangazur hall which can join
Azerbaijan with Türkiye via Armenia. The exercise of the
hall testifies to the enterprise potential of comparable initiatives
supplied by Azerbaijani diplomats,” the professional defined.
He mentioned Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and China are actively engaged on
the implementation of a joint undertaking to construct a street connecting
the Ferghana Valley with the western provinces of China.
The above transport route, passing via the cities of
Tashkent-Andijan-Osh-Irkeshtam-Kashgar alongside 4 different
branches, won’t solely join the transport railway routes of
Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and China, however may also grow to be the primary
phase of the Great Silk Road undertaking.
“This railway route is the shortest route from China to Europe
and the Middle East. With the commissioning of this railway, the
distance shall be decreased by 900 kilometers in comparison with present
routes, and the supply time of products shall be decreased by seven to
eight days,” he mentioned.
“China is actively concerned in implementation of this undertaking,
which launched a Xi’an-Bishkek direct freight rail route on July
17, 2019. The opening of regional hubs in Uzbekistan has already
made severe adjustments within the growth of latest fashions of
worldwide transportation, the place the Trans-Afghan hall is of
nice significance.”
Summing up, Khasanov famous that specifically the above priorities of
the regional and world agenda will prevail within the bilateral
relations between Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan for lengthy years.
In flip, director of the Uzbek Development Strategy Center Eldor
Tulyakov famous that bilateral and multilateral cooperation between
Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan has been growing dynamically for extra
than 30 years.
“A excessive strategic degree of cooperation has been achieved thanks
to shut dialogue and mutual understanding between the presidents
of the 2 nations. Over the previous 5 years, commerce between
Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan has grown nearly by seven instances: from
$17.1 million in 2016 to $118.9 million in 2021,” Tulyakov
mentioned.
“According to the State Statistics Committee of Uzbekistan, in
2021, the quantity of bilateral commerce with Azerbaijan amounted to
$118.9 million, a rise of 42 p.c in comparison with 2020,” he
famous. “At the identical time, from January via May 2022, the quantity
of commerce between the nations amounted to $66.4 million and
elevated by 49.1 p.c in comparison with the identical interval in 2021.”
“Azerbaijan is among the few nations with which Uzbekistan
has a constructive commerce steadiness. In 2021, this determine amounted to $33
million,” Tulyakov emphasised.
Moreover, in line with him, Azerbaijan is a vital nation
via which the primary transport routes to Türkiye and different
European nations (railway and street) go, which must be additional
expanded.
“For instance, already a railway hall has been launched – the
international commerce route of Uzbekistan within the western route, which
connects its Tashkent and Kungrad cities with Beyneu and Aktau
(Kazakhstan), Azerbaijan’s Baku, Georgian Tbilisi and Poti, and
European nations,” Tulyakov said. “Besides, there’s the AH5
(International Asian Network) street hall connecting China with
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan,
Azerbaijan-Georgia-Türkiye-Bulgaria.”
He additionally spoke concerning the launch of E60 (European route) street
hall connecting France with Switzerland, Austria, Germany,
Hungary, Romania, Georgia-Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan,
Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and China.
“At the identical time, Uzbekistan and its western companions –
Türkiye, Azerbaijan, Georgia and others are concerned with selling
the multimodal transport hall of Asia-Pacific
region-China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan-Turkmenistan-Azerbaijan-Georgia-Türkiye-Europe,
passing via the territory of China, the nations of Central
Asia, the Caspian Sea, the Caucasus, Türkiye and the nations of
Europe,” he mentioned.
Tulyakov identified that implementation of the multimodal
transport hall will cut back the time of motion of products from
the Central Asian nations by thrice.
“Moreover, the implementation of this multimodal transport
hall via Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan will enable our nations
considerably enhance their international commerce turnover, and also can
considerably enhance the quantity of transit cargo via their
territory. In Uzbekistan, the quantity of transit cargo
transportation can enhance from the present almost 10 million tons
to 23 million tons in 2030,” the professional mentioned.
According to him, within the present disaster situations and in opposition to
the backdrop of challenges within the area of meals safety, it
turns into essential to diversify transport routes connecting Central
Asia with the East and West via the Caspian Sea, the Caucasus
and additional – to Europe.
“In this regard, each railway and street transport corridors, the
growth of transport infrastructure, implementation of frequent
transport initiatives have gotten vital areas of cooperation for
many nations, together with Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan,” Tulyakov
mentioned.
According to the professional, the present go to of Azerbaijani
President Ilham Aliyev to Uzbekistan will give a brand new impetus to the
growth of bilateral and multilateral relations between the 2
nations, and increase alternatives for selling shut
dialogue.
At the identical time, he mentioned that additional deepening of commerce and
financial cooperation, the event of transport and
communication hyperlinks and infrastructure, in addition to the enlargement of
industrial and transit cooperation, grow to be probably the most related
points.
