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On June 3, 2025, a meeting was held in Dushanbe between the Minister of Transport of the Republic of Tajikistan Azim Ibrohim and the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Armenia (with residence in Astana) Armen Ghevondyan, the press service of the department reported.
The parties discussed issues of expanding cooperation between Tajikistan and Armenia in the field of transport, noting the need to intensify joint efforts to use the transit potential of the two countries and improve the indicators of freight transportation between Tajikistan and Armenia.
Further actions aimed at identifying new mutually beneficial, including multimodal, transport routes were considered. The parties shared their views on this issue.
As Azim Ibrohim noted, turning Tajikistan into a transit country is designated as one of the strategic goals of the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan. The main tasks for achieving these goals, in particular, are the development of the transport industry, construction and reconstruction of transport infrastructure, creation and expansion of transit transport corridors.
In this regard, the Minister of Transport emphasized the importance of activating and using the multimodal transport corridor “China – Tajikistan – Uzbekistan – Turkmenistan – Iran – Türkiye – Europe”.
According to the minister, Tajikistan can and plans to become a convenient transit zone for other countries, connected to international transport corridors such as TRACECA and ESCAP, which include both Tajikistan and Armenia.
In December 2022, the Government of Tajikistan approved and signed the Agreement on the Single Transit Permit TRACECA (Transport Corridor Europe-Caucasus-Asia).
Ambassador Armen Ghevondyan spoke about the measures taken by Armenia to create new and unblock existing transport corridors, in particular, the construction of the North-South road corridor, which will allow transit traffic between Georgia, Turkey, Iran and the countries of Central Asia, as well as participation in the Crossroads of the World project, which implies updating the transport network in the South Caucasus with Armenia playing a central role.
This means that the Silk Road, which in ancient times ran through the North Caucasus, will now be connected to the South Caucasus node.
“Thus, another node is being added to the multimodal corridor “China-Tajikistan-Uzbekistan-Turkmenistan-Iran-Turkey-Europe”, which corresponds to the instruction of the President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon to expand our international transport corridors,” noted the head of the Ministry of Transport of the Republic of Tajikistan.
Following the meeting, the Minister of Transport of Tajikistan and the Ambassador of Armenia confirmed their readiness for a close dialogue aimed at developing and subsequently implementing proposals for promising routes in demand in economic cooperation.
