The opening ceremony of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BTK) railway was held today.

Kanal24 reports that heads of states and government participating in the ceremony hit the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railroad line and launched the road.

The first train has departed from Baku to Kars in the ceremony, attended by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, First lady Mehriban Aliyeva, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his spouse Emine Erdoğan, Kazakh Prime Minister Bakytzhan Sagintayev, Georgian Prime Minister Georgy Kvirikashvili, Uzbek Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov, also, delegations from Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.