DUSHANBE, December 11, Asia-Plus — The second congress of the CIS road-building specialists and the 28th session of the intergovernmental council for CIS transportation authorities opened in Moscow today.
Deputy Transport and Communications Minister, Joumakhon Zuhurov, is representing Tajikistan in both events.
The source at the Ministry of Transport and Communications (MoTC) said that the interstate council’s session would consider issues related to expansion of cooperation among the CIS states in the fields of international automotive transport communication.
The meeting participants include representatives from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
The previous 27th session of the intergovernmental council of the CIS transportation authorities was held in Brest, Belarus in December 2006.
The session participants discussed results of the implementation of a Protocol on International CIS Motorways, their development in areas adjacent to country borders. Among the major points on the agenda were the enforcement of and agreement on international certificate in truck weighting, the methods of calculating net contributions of motorways to the GDP.
Set up in 1992 in Minsk, the intergovernmental council of CIS transportation authorities coordinates transportation policies within CIS. Among its priorities are developing a single set of requirements for the CIS network of international motorways, development of trans-Europe transportation corridors and maintenance of motorways.
