KAZAKHSTAN, GEORGIA SIGN ROAD SERVICE DEAL

Interfax-Kazakhstan news agency, Almaty
6 Mar 07

Astana, 6 March: Kazakh Minister of Transport and Communications
Serik Akhmetov and Georgian Deputy Minister of Economic Development
Ivane Nakaidze signed an agreement in Astana on Tuesday [6 March]
on international road service, an Interfax-Kazakhstan correspondent
has reported.

The Kazakh Transport and Communications Ministry said in a press
release circulated during the ceremony in which the document was
signed that the agreement would regulate the procedure of transit of
the two countries’ vehicles through their territories and create a
legal basis for boosting cooperation in the field of international
road service and simplifying the process of haulage.

[Passage omitted: more details of the agreement; Kazakhstan has
similar agreements with Armenia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan]