Vladimir Putin approves creation of common SCO transport system
Russian President Vladimir Putin approves creation of common SCO transport system, Kremlin press center says referring to the results of SCO Summit in Dushanbe.
“We see great potential in the idea of developing a common SCO transport system that would make use too of Russia’s Trans-Siberian Railway and Baikal-Amur Mainline and be tied into China’s plans for developing the Silk Road route. I am sure that big projects of this kind serve the interests of our organisation’s members and would benefit all countries in Eurasia.
Practical work in this area will get a good boost from the agreement signed today on establishing good conditions for international road transport. This agreement will help us to develop a network of road transport routes, including the Europe-Western China transport corridor, which links the ports on the Yellow Sea coast to the ports in Russia’s Leningrad Region. The next step is to approve the programme for coordinating SCO member states’ road development. Russia submitted a draft of this programme to our partners in April this year”, Vladimir Putin said.
