CPEC crucial for Azerbaijan’s exports

ISLAMABAD: The CPEC is significant for Azerbaijan, as the country can now export goods to China. Ambassador of Pakistan to Azerbaijan Sajid Khan Mohmand said goods can be sent to China from Astrakhan via Azerbaijan, Iran and Pakistan. “We are also expanding the main seaport of Gwadar; by 2025, the port would accept more and more large vessels, and there would be transport corridors within the Lapis Lazuli project and the Ashgabat agreement that will connect Azerbaijan with Pakistan and the Central Asia,” the ambassador was quoted as saying by Azerbaijani newspaper AzerNews on Tuesday. The cooperation between China and Azerbaijan strongly contributes to the realisation of the silk-road programme. China became Azerbaijan’s 4th largest trading partner in 2017.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 4^th, 2018.

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