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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
ANKARA, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) — Turkey and Georgia will continue to work "shoulder to shoulder" for regional cooperation, peace and development, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said at a joint press conference with visiting Georgian President Mikheil Kavelashvili after their meeting on Tuesday.
According to R. T. Erdogan, the two countries are not only neighbors but also strategic partners, linked by deep historical, cultural and humanitarian ties and based on a solid economic foundation. The volume of bilateral trade in recent years has exceeded 3 billion US dollars, and the new target is 5 billion dollars, he said.
The Turkish leader called the 826-km Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway, opened in 2017, “the backbone of the Middle Corridor” connecting East and West. Its full-scale operation “is of great importance,” he added.
In turn, M. Kavelashvili highly appreciated the strategic partnership and friendship between the two countries and thanked Turkey for its continued support for Georgia’s sovereignty, territorial integrity and its aspirations for EU membership.
He particularly emphasized Turkey’s role in ensuring security in the Black Sea and invited R. T. Erdogan to visit Georgia.
M. Kavelashvili also stressed the importance of the Türkiye-Georgia-Azerbaijan trilateral cooperation mechanism for regional stability and development.
After the meeting, the Georgian president published a series of posts on the X social network, in which he said that the parties also expressed their readiness to deepen political, economic and cultural cooperation and discussed the situation in the Middle East. –0–
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