ArmInfo. Minister of Transport, Communications and Information Technologies of Armenia Vahan Martirosyan received the General Director of the Office for Eurasian Affairs of the Civil Engineering Corporation of China, Jiang Aiming, on March 5.
According to the press service of the ministry, the company is interested in the design and construction of the Armenia-Iran railway. Jiang Aiming noted that the project "One zone, one way" will be discussed at the Ministry of Commerce of China.
The minister stressed that the railway construction project is strategically important for Armenia and expressed readiness to discuss this issue with the Ministry of Commerce of China.
Jiang Aiming added that after the positive process of discussions they will be ready to conduct a feasibility study of the project. At the end of the meeting, the parties agreed on plans for the future.
On February 12, in an interview with journalists, the Iranian Ambassador to Armenia Seyed Kazem Sadjadi noted that the Armenian side should make the first step towards the construction of the Iran-Armenia railway.