During a meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly this week in New York, Kyrgyz Foreign Minister Ruslan Kazakbaev congratulated Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on his appointment as Iran’s top diplomat, and proposed a direct flight between Bishkek and Tehran. Kazakbaev also expressed willingness to use the capacity of the port city Bandar Abbas, at the intersection of the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, for transit cooperation.
The Kyrgyz Foreign Minister said his country’s internal conditions are better than ever for the presence of Iranian economic activists, calling for the two countries to work together on cooperation within the framework of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), in which Kyrgyzstan is one of the five member nations. He also said Kyrgyzstan is ready to cooperate in the construction of a railway corridor between the two countries.
