Georgia plays viral transit role connecting Iran to Europe
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Georgia will play an important role connecting Iran to Europe thanks to a new transit corridor that Iran and Bulgaria are opening through Georgia.
Iran and Bulgaria signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) last week, which confirmed the two countries would jointly open a transit corridor through Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia and the Black Sea.
Iran’s Mehr news agency reported the transit corridor would be used for passengers and cargo routes.
Experts believed establishing the new corridor would have considerable impacts on the whole region developing intra-regional transportation of passengers and goods.
The drafting of the protocol of the agreement will be penned and revised in Iran’s capital Tehran and Bulgaria’s capital Sofia, and ready to be signed in 2016 by the Transportation Ministers of the countries in the corridor, reported Mehr.
It is believed the new corridor will replace the Turkish path, which has been targeted by terrorists attacks in recent months.
Ambassador of Iran to Georgia Abbas Talebifar said Iran and Georgia currently enjoyed some of the best relations they’ve ever had.
We have very good parliamentary cooperation. During the last year parliamentary delegations of all levels paid visits to Iran. At the beginning of 2016 Iran’s Parliament chairman planned to visit Georgia. Economic and political relations are also developing well,” Talebifar said.
In 2015, after about a 10-year pause, a session of the joint inter-governmental economic commission was held in Tehran, which was led by the then Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia Giorgi Kvirikashvili. About 80 important treaties were signed between Iran and Georgia. We are now planning to prepare the Georgian Prime Minister's visit to Iran,” he added.
Iranian Ambassador said "no wind, storm or hurricane” could ruin Georgian-Iranian relations.
This was his response to a statement by Georgian Deputy Foreign Minister Davit Dondua who recently said: "Our American colleagues asked us to refrain from a full-scale cooperation with Iran until all obligations of Vienna are fulfilled".
Georgia and Iran are looking to enhance bilateral ties in the transport, energy and manufacturing sectors.
The European Union (EU) is extremely interested in expanding energy cooperation with Caspian Sea countries, said EU Ambassador to Azerbaijan Malena Mardi at the Caspian Oil and Gas forum held in Baku yesterday.
Work has begun today on a new gas pipeline that will travel through Georgia to better connect Europe with gas from the Caspian Sea, thus reducing dependence on Russian gas.
Georgia is going to play an important role connecting two major transport routes; one connecting Western and Central Europe and the other connecting central and South-East Asia.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia (MFA) has today welcomed the international community’s efforts to develop a plan and adhere to obligations, leading to a lift of nuclear-related sanctions on Iran.
Georgia's Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili spoke with the President of Iran Hassan Rouhani this evening, February 8, and discussed his intention to abolish its visa regime with Iran, announced the PM's press service.
Iran will construct Hydro-electric Power Plants (HPPs) in Georgia, develop the country’s electricity network and build electricity transmission lines between Iran and Georgia, reports Iranian newspaper Tehran Times.
A container warehouse is being built near the Black Sea, in Georgia’s western Adjara region, to support the country’s economy and improve its function as a transit nation.
Georgia and Iran are strengthening ties to carry forward millennia-old relations by forging closer ties in internet technology and communication.
An oil refinery complex will be built in Supsa, a Black Sea port village in western Georgia. The project’s investor, Georgian-Iranian company GEOPARS, was gifted state-owned land in Supsa to build the new oil refinery.
Georgian startups will now able to enter the Iranian market of 80 million consumers and develop new businesses in Iran.
European Commission’s Director-General for Mobility and Transport Henrik Hololei said Georgia has excellent potential and opportunities for investing in transport.