Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi and his Azeri counterpart Ilham Aliyev also held a bilateral meeting before attending this e dam opening ceremony.
Located 220km northeast of Tabriz, the Qiz Qalasi Dam has been constructed on the Aras River on the joint borders between Iran and the Republic of Azerbaijan. with a length of 1,072km, the Aras is a border river between Iran, the Republic of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Turkey.
The largest joint water project between Iran and the Republic of Azerbaijan will be put into operation at a ceremony to be attended by the presidents of the two countries, Ali Akbar Mehrabian stated.
The two countries share a 450-km joint border with the Aras River and a dam named “Khoda Afarin” dam became operational years ago for the joint operation of this river, the Iranian minister of energy said on Sunday.
Now another dam, namely the Qiz-Qalasi dam, has been constructed on this river, Ali Akbar Mehrabian said.
The Qiz-Qalasi dam regulates 2 billion cubic meters of water per annum, Mehrabian noted, adding that the two Iranian provinces of Ardabil and East Azarbaijan are supplied with a high volume of water from the dam.
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