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    AZERBAIJAN, KAZAKHSTAN, GEORGIA, TURKEY SIGN TRANSPORT AGREEMENT

    Trend News Agency
    Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Business News
    October 9, 2012 Tuesday
    Baku, Azerbaijan

    by: E. Ismayilov, Trend News Agency, Baku, Azerbaijan

    Oct. 09--Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Georgia and Turkey will sign two
    documents within the Silk Wind project, TRACECA national secretary
    from Azerbaijan Akif Mustafayev reported to Trend on Tuesday.

    The purpose of Silk Wind project is establishment of the high speed
    block train route, multimodal transport with advanced system of
    preliminary information exchange to involve freights transport to
    Europe Caucasus Asia corridors.

    According to Mustafayev, the first document is a memorandum of
    mutual understanding between transport ministries of 4 countries,
    an agreement on development of multimodal transportations.

    These documents are currently being developed, in particular,
    internally coordinated.

    "Silk Wind project is practically an addition to Baku Tbilisi Kars
    railway , construction of which is in process," Mustafayev added.

    In Mustafayev's opinion, memorandum of mutual understanding between
    ministries of four countries could be signed early next year, the
    agreement on development of multimodal transportations -- during
    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



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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