Azerbaijani, Turkish, Pakistani leaders to inaugurate Lachin International Airport on May 28 PHOTO

The official inauguration of the Lachin International Airport will take place on May 28 in the Lachin District, with the participation of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Caliber.Az reports, citing Turkish media.

Lachin Airport is the third airport constructed on Azerbaijan’s liberated territories. It is also the country’s highest-altitude airport, situated at 1,800 metres above sea level—a location that required extensive engineering work under challenging mountainous conditions.

Construction of the airport began in 2021. It is located 30 kilometres from Lachin city centre, 60 kilometres from Kalbajar, and 70 kilometres from Shusha. The runway is 3,000 metres long and 60 metres wide, and the terminal has a capacity to process 200 passengers per hour.

On May 26 of this year, Azerbaijani Prime Minister Ali Asadov signed a resolution granting the facility international airport status. The information was subsequently submitted to international aviation bodies, bringing the total number of international airports in Azerbaijan to nine.

The Lachin airport is expected to become a key driver of regional development.

Notably, Presidents Aliyev and Erdoğan previously inaugurated two other international airports in the liberated territories: Fuzuli International Airport in October 2021 and Zangilan International Airport in October 2022.

By Khagan Isayev