"We have agreed to establish a working group under the leadership of the Ministers of Transport and Foreign Affairs. The first meeting will be held in Tashkent next month."

APA reports that President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev said this during a meeting with President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev in an expanded format.

Distinguished members of the delegation, our cooperation in the field of transport and communications is of a strategic nature.

We intend to further increase freight traffic using Azerbaijan's modern transport network, including the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway.

This applies in particular to the transit of food and industrial goods.

At the same time, current realities require the formation of alternative corridors.

In this regard, the construction of the Uzbekistan-Kyrgyzstan-China and Termez-Mazar-e-Sharif-Kabul-Peshawar railways will provide the shortest access to the markets of our countries in the Asia-Pacific region and South Asia, which have more than 3 billion consumers.

We agreed to establish a working group with the leadership of transport ministers to address priority issues in this area.

We also agreed to establish a working group under the leadership of foreign ministers.

We do not prolong these issues, the first meeting will be held in Tashkent next month.

Of course, the ministers of transport, investment and economy will work under the auspices of the foreign ministers.

In my opinion, because we have very serious intentions.