Azerbaijan is actively working on the Zangezur corridor, which will become an additional route from Azerbaijan to Turkey and Europe, and construction work in Azerbaijani territory was carried out by about 70 percent.
This was stated by President Ilham Aliyev in an interview with Chinese media corporation China Media Group.
“Thus, not only one Baku-Tbilisi-Kars, but also the Zangezur corridor will pass through Azerbaijan. All this will create additional opportunities to increase the cargo flow,” the head of state emphasized.
As the President noted, it is planned to create many new industries along the route of the Zangezur corridor.
“This is good from a geopolitical point of view, this gives additional profit, but we want to create large industrial zones in Azerbaijan, and are actually moving in this direction. And I think that it will also be attractive for Chinese companies, since they can establish production in our free zone in Alyat, which was commissioned this month and already functions. So the picture can be more widely imagined,” The President of Azerbaijan,
Aliyev spoke about the wrong performance of Azerbaijan to the Western press.
“with respect to Azerbaijan, there are a number of factors. One of them is not the main one, but only one of them is that the Armenian lobby, which has a large infrastructure in the USA, France and in some other Western countries, regularly attacks Azerbaijan. They are captivated by parliamentary establishment, the media, and all their own government, and all their own government, and all their own government Arrows are directed against Azerbaijan. And they create a peculiar atmosphere of Azerbaijanophobia. But this is not the only and not the main reason. I think the main reason is that Azerbaijan pursues an independent policy based on its national interests. Unlike some countries, Azerbaijan is not binded into any adventures that do not correspond to our priorities and our other words. , we behave independently, ”the head of state said.
According to the president, Baku is now faced with very unreasonable attacks from the French government. France became the largest defender of Armenia, he noted.
“They (France – Ed.) became the largest anti -Azerbaijani source in Europe. They attack us in all directions, and their foreign policy statements and statements of officials go beyond any political ethics. They accused us of what we did not do during the war. And did not even apologize for this,” the head of state emphasized.