GREAT SILK ROAD REEMERGING?
By Nana Petrosian
AZG Armenian Daily
31/10/2006
The Great Silk Road functioned 2000 years ago and still can function
today. The CIS member states are looking to restoring it. This issue
was discussed at the session of the council coordinating transport
communication in CIS countries. The routs of the Great Silk Road pass
through 40 European and Asian states.
Russia's transport minister Igor Levitin said that projects of
organizing corridors for goods transportation from China to Europe
are being elaborated jointly with Ukraine. During the upcoming 5
years transportation corridors of the Great Silk Road passing through
Kazakhstan are going to be restored, transport minister of the country
Serik Akhmetov assured.
By Nana Petrosian
AZG Armenian Daily
31/10/2006
The Great Silk Road functioned 2000 years ago and still can function
today. The CIS member states are looking to restoring it. This issue
was discussed at the session of the council coordinating transport
communication in CIS countries. The routs of the Great Silk Road pass
through 40 European and Asian states.
Russia's transport minister Igor Levitin said that projects of
organizing corridors for goods transportation from China to Europe
are being elaborated jointly with Ukraine. During the upcoming 5
years transportation corridors of the Great Silk Road passing through
Kazakhstan are going to be restored, transport minister of the country
Serik Akhmetov assured.