Putin’s invitation to all countries to expand the North-South corridor

According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency quoting “Tass” news agency, Russian President Vladimir Putin invited all countries to develop the North-South transport corridor.

Putin met with builders and The veteran workers of the main Baikal-Amur highway, together with Ilham Aliyev, the president of Azerbaijan, who lives in Moscow, on the occasion of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the beginning of its construction, emphasized: Another field of constructive cooperation between Russia and Azerbaijan today with scale and importance. The history of this highway matches. We are talking about the development of the North-South transportation corridor, which actually connects the North Sea of ​​Russia to the Persian Gulf. He emphasized: The North-South Corridor should be become an example of extensive international cooperation. We are talking about the formation of new logistics routes for the accelerated economic and social development of the countries of the Eurasian region and the global south, which is important for everyone. The president stressed that Moscow invites all interested countries to participate in this project.

Putin called the main Baikal-Amur highway the road of the future and reminded that this route embodies the great work and courage of 2 million very hardworking young people from all over the republics of the Soviet Union who They carried out a literally unique project that had no parallel in the history of the world.

Discussing the importance of the North-South Corridor for Russia, experts point to this point. They point out that in the early 2000s, the West realized that this corridor would make Russia independent from the routes around Europe and along the Suez Canal and could change the face of global trade to the detriment of Western countries. In this regard, over the past 22 years, the West has done everything possible to weaken the international transport corridor: it started a war in Afghanistan, orchestrated the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and even Iran and Pakistan. He pulled it inside to prevent the development of this corridor.