Armenia and Azerbaijan Sign Agreement to Transit Internet Traffic

Armenia and Azerbaijan signed an agreement to transit internet traffic through their territories, Euronews reported. The deal allows each country to route international traffic across the other's infrastructure. Telecom Armenia said it is ensuring transit through its own infrastructure to Azerbaijan.

AzerTelecom said it ensures the transit of internet traffic to Armenia using its own infrastructure. Both operators described themselves as the leading transit operator in the region and stated they are expanding the number and geography of countries supplying international internet traffic.

The companies said the agreements aim to diversify connection routes, increase the reliability of telecommunication networks and develop cooperation in the field of telecommunications.

AzerTelecom also announced it is developing the Digital Silk Way project, which includes a fibre-optic cable beneath the Caspian Sea to create a new digital corridor between Europe and Asia. In a separate development, a shipment of over 400 tonnes of fertilisers arrived in Armenia from Russia on Tuesday via Azerbaijani transit routes.

More than 14,000 tonnes of diesel and over 4,000 tonnes of petrol have been exported from Azerbaijan to Armenia.

Over 32,000 tonnes of grain, more than 7,000 tonnes of fertiliser and smaller quantities of aluminium, buckwheat and anthracite have passed from Russia to Armenia through Azerbaijani territory.