Turkmenistan to attend transport corridor project discussion in Bucharest
By Trend
The delegation of Turkmenistan will attend an inter-ministerial meeting to be held March 3-4 in Bucharest to discuss a project of creation of Caspian Sea-Black Sea international transport corridor, Trend reports with reference to the Turkmen government.
Deputy prime minister, Foreign Minister of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov will meet with his colleagues from Azerbaijan, Georgia and Romania. The agenda includes issues related to increasing freight traffic through the ports of Turkmenbashi, Baku, Poti, Batumi and Constanta, encouraging cooperation with all interested parties, including the EU and the creation of a quadrilateral working commission on the implementation of this project.
In order to improve the quality of transport services, it is planned to discuss the possibilities of using digital technologies and establishing information exchange. Following the meeting, it is planned to adopt the Bucharest Declaration, the Turkmenistan State News Agency reported.
Ashgabat is lobbying for the creation of an extensive multimodal infrastructure covering the Caspian basin, continental Eurasia with access to the Black Sea and Baltic Sea terminals, South and Southeast Asia, the Middle East and countries of the Asia-Pacific region.
The initiated important projects include the transport corridor on the Afghanistan-Turkmenistan-Azerbaijan-Georgia-Turkey route, which has great prospects for turning into a trade-economic and cultural bridge between Asia and Europe in the future.
Earlier, it was reported that Ashgabat and Bucharest had agreed on intensifying political and diplomatic efforts for potentially inking a political declaration on the creation of a transport and transit corridor connecting the Caspian to the Black Sea.
It is expected that Constanta may become a transshipment point of goods transported from the Turkmen port of Turkmenbashi to the EU, as well as from Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in the context of ensuring the access of goods from Turkmenistan and other Central Asian countries to European markets.
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