sentences:  A week before the foreign ministers met, a seventh meeting of the Baku–Tbilisi–Kars co-ordination council was held in Tbilisi, during which the Turkish and Azerbaijani transport ministers and the Georgian finance minister announced that the railway will be operational in 2017 when work on the Turkish section is completed.The railway was officially inaugurated in the Alat Port of Baku, Azerbaijan on 30 October 2017 by the leaders of Azerbaijan, Turkey, and Georgia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.Representatives of TRACECA, international and financial organizations, official delegations of Tajikistan and Turkmenistan were among participants of the ceremony.