ISSUES OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE TRANSPORT CORRIDOR "CASPIAN SEA - BLACK SEA" DISCUSSED

On October 20, 2022, in the building of the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure of Romania, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Turkmenistan A.Annaev met with Adrian George Foghis, coordinator of the Working Group on the international transit and transport route "Caspian Sea - Black Sea". Also at the meeting was Constantin Gabriel Bunduk, both of them are State Secretaries of the Romanian Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure.

The subject of detailed discussion was the issues of partnership in the transport and communications sector, including the preparation of a draft intergovernmental Agreement on the creation and implementation of the international transit and transport corridor "Caspian Sea - Black Sea".

The creation of this corridor was announced at the end of July 2018 during a meeting of the Turkmen-Romanian working group on transport issues, held in the Turkmenbashi city. The new international transport corridor should connect the Caspian and Black Seas through the territory of Azerbaijan and Georgia. At the same time, the starting point of the route is Turkmenistan, and the final point is Romania. Important links of the route are the Romanian Black Sea port of Constanta and the port of Turkmenbashi.

During the meeting, the parties exchanged views on cooperation in the transport and transit sector and the maximum use of the mutual potential of the international transport corridor "Caspian Sea - Black Sea".