Leaders to meet at groundbreaking for KArs-Tbilisi-Baku railway project

President Abdullah Gul and his Azerbaijani and Georgian counterparts, Ilham Aliyev and Mihail Saakashvili, next week will attend a groundbreaking ceremony in Kars for the Turkish leg of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars Railway Project. The venture, which is set to connect Turkey, Azerbaijan and Georgia via a railway, aims at developing energy cooperation between the three countries. Some 6.5 million tons of cargo and 1.5 million passengers are expected to be transported via the railway in the first year following its construction.