ARMENIA SIGNS AGREEMENT ON TRASECA MULTIMODAL TRANSPORT PROJECT

ARKA
June 18, 2009

YEREVAN, June 18. /ARKA/. Armenia has signed an agreement on developing
multimodal transport as part of the TRASECA project, said Susanna
Tonoyan, press secretary of the RA Transport Ministry.

"RA Transport Minister Gurgen Sargsyan signed the agreement on behalf
of the RA Government as he participated in the June 15-16 Kyrgyzstan
meeting of the TRASECA Intergovernmental Commission," Tonoyan was
quoted as saying.

The press secretary stressed that the agreement aims at improving
cooperation amongst transport organizations, multimodal transport
operators, ferrymen, shippers, legal entities and individuals. The
document specifies the rights and responsibilities of participants.

Azerbaijan sighed the agreement with clauses, Tonoyan added. The
TRASECA intergovernmental commission appointed Kyrgyzstan’s former
transport minister Zhantoro Satibaldiev as Secretary General of the
TRASECA Permanent Secretariat.

Multimodal transport covers the door-to-door movement of goods under
the responsibility of a single transport operator.

Launched by the European Commission in 1993, TRASECA aims at boosting
Europe-Caucasus-Asia transport corridor, creating alternative transport
routes and using infrastructures available for shipment.

Armenia, Bulgaria, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Moldova, Romania, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Turkey and Ukraine are
TRASECA members.