Kazakh Deputy Minister of Transport Zhanibek Taizhanov attended the official opening ceremony of the modernized Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway on June 2 at the Akhalkalaki railway station in Georgia.
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On June 2, the long-awaited ceremony marking the commissioning of the Baku–Tbilisi–Kars railway after the completion of a large-scale reconstruction of the Georgian section of the line took place in Tbilisi. Representatives of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Türkiye attended the event, underscoring the project’s strategic importance for the further development of the Middle Corridor.
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In today’s world, nothing is valued more highly than security and professionalism—especially when war is raging nearby.
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