Four regional states to sign transport agreement
Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Georgia and Turkey will sign two documents within the Silk Wind project, TRACECA national secretary from Azerbaijan Akif Mustafayev told Trend news agency on Tuesday.
The purpose of Silk Wind project is establishment of a high speed train route, multimodal transport with advanced system of preliminary information exchange to involve freight transport to Europe, Caucasus and Asia.
According to Mustafayev, the first document is a memorandum of understanding between transport ministries of the four countries, while the other one is an agreement on development of multimodal transportation.
"Silk Wind project is practically an addition to Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway, construction of which is in process," Mustafayev added.
Mustafayev said the memorandum of understanding between the ministries of the four countries could be signed early next year, while the agreement on multimodal transportation -- during the next intergovernmental TRACECA conference, which will take place in Dushanbe in May 2013.
TRACECA is an international transport cooperation program between the EU and its partner countries in Eastern Europe, South Caucasus and Central Asia. It has a permanent secretariat in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Currently, TRACECA member states are Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, Moldova, Romania, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Ukraine and Iran
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