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The Iranian Minister of Road and Urban Development Farzaneh Sadegh is scheduled to visit Baku next week to take part in the tri-lateral meeting between Azerbaijan, Iran and Russia to exchange views on the development of the International North–South Transport Corridor (INSTC).
“The Baku meeting will discuss the projects related to the completion of the North-South Corridor,” the Director of International Relations Center of the Ministry of Road of Urban Development Amin Tarrafo said.
It is going to discuss increasing the transport capacity of the corridor, accelerating the movement of the trucks, and simplifying and streamlining the customs procedures, ILNA news agency quoted him saying.
“Another major item on the agenda of the upcoming Baku meeting is the energy corridor as Azerbaijan, Iran and Russia plan to connect their energy networks,” he added.
The INSTC is a 7,200-km long multi-mode route of road, rail and ship for moving freight between Azerbaijan, Central Asia, Europe, India, Iran, and Russia and increases connectivity between Mumbai, Bandar Abbas, Bandar Anzali, Baku, Astarakhan and Moscow.
Local news media in Azerbaijan quoted the Cabinet of Ministers who said the two-day meeting which opens next Monday will focus on strengthening cooperation in the fields of transport and logistics, energy, and customs.
The delegations will be led by Deputy Prime Minister of Azerbaijan Shahin Mustafayev, Iranian Minister of Transport and Urban Planning Farzaneh Sadegh, and Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Alexey Overchuk.
Iran's Sadegh and Azerbaijan's Mustafayev last met in Tehran in September. They both co-chair the Azerbaijan-Iran Joint Economic Cooperation.
The Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said that Tehran is interested in expanding its relations with Baku in all political, economic, and cultural fields. He made the comment during a meeting with the deputy premier of Azerbaijan last month.
He stated that there was “no obstacle in the path of developing interactions and cooperation” between the two countries adding that Iran wants enhanced relations with the neighbouring and Islamic countries
President Pezeshkian also came to Baku on a state visit back in April where Mustafayev said that President Aliyev had asked him to emphasise on the agenda, the serious and diligent implantation of agreements that were reached during that visit.
U.S. President Donald Trump said the U.S. military has enough stockpiled weapons to fight wars "forever"; in a social media post late on Monday. The remarks came hours before conflict in Iran and the Middle East entered its fourth day.
U.S. first lady, Melania Trump chaired a UN Security Council meeting on children and education in conflict on Monday (2 March), a move criticised by Iran as hypocritical following U.S. and Israeli strikes that triggered a UN warning about risks to children.
A torpedo from a U.S. submarine sunk an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka, U.S. Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth told reporters as the Iranian conflcit entered its fifth day on Wednesday.
The U.S. embassy in Riyadh was hit by two drones resulting in a limited fire and some material damage, the kingdom's defence ministry said in a post on X on Tuesday, citing an initial assessment.
Shahid Motahari Sub-Speciality Hospital in northern Tehran and parts of the Golestan Palace were bombed on day two of the U.S.‑Israel strikes. AnewZ Touraj Shiralilou is in Iran's capital city and said that the facility was flattened in an airstrike.
A U.S. submarine strike sank an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka, leaving at least 80 dead, the country’s deputy foreign minister said. Meanwhile, Iran postponed the funeral of its late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, according to state media.
The election of Iran’s next supreme leader could provide an opportunity to end the ongoing regional war involving Israel, the U.S. and Iran, Türkiye’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has said.
The U.S. Department of Defense has released a video of a submarine strike on an Iranian warship off the southern Sri Lankan coast. At least 80 people died in the U.S. attack on the vessel, Sri Lanka's Deputy Foreign Minister said.
Rising tensions in the Middle East are beginning to affect Kazakhstan’s economy and citizens, disrupting grain trade across the Caspian Sea and prompting the evacuation of hundreds of Kazakh nationals from several countries in the region.
Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev highlighted the country’s expanding gas exports to Europe and its renewable energy ambitions during the Southern Gas Corridor Advisory Council’s 12th Ministerial Meeting and the Green Energy Advisory Council’s 4th Ministerial Meeting in Baku on Tuesday (3 March).
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