/UKRINFORM/. Ukraine and Azerbaijan agreed to considerably enhance cooperation in transport and communications, First Vice Prime Minister Andriy Kliuyev has said by results of the 8th meeting of the Intergovernmental Ukraine-Azerbaijan Commission on economic cooperation.
According to him, the parties agree to work out possibilities of increasing mutual cargo shipment by sea transport. Andriy Kliuyev noted that potential of Ukraine-Azerbaijan relations in this sphere presently has not been fully realized. Participants in the meeting expressed their interest in further development of the traffic in the direction of the TRACECA international transport corridor, UKRINFORM reports with reference to the press service of the First Vice Prime Minister.
The transport and communications ministries of Ukraine and Azarbaijan were instructed to develop an issue on Azerbaijan's accession to the Ukraine-Lithuania-Belarus project of the traffic via the territory of Georgia and Azerbaijan in the direction of Central Asian countries.
Participants in the meeting also reached an agreement on intensification of cooperation in the space sector. In particular, the Ukrainian party undertook to prepare proposals for the Azerbaijan party on training Azerbaijan space industry specialists at Ukrainian higher educational establishments.
As is known, the transport corridor Europe-Caucuses-Asia or the new Silk Road (TRACECA) starts in Ukraine, Bulgaria and Romania and also crosses Turkey. Further, the route goes on the Black Sea to the ports of Poti and Batumi in Georgia, than it involves the transport network of the Southern Caucasus using the on-land communication with this region from Turkey. From Azerbaijan by the Caspian ferries (Baku - Turkmenbashi, Baku - Aktau) the TRACECA route comes to the railways of the Central Asian states Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan, whose transport networks are connected with the directions in Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan and reach the borders with China and Afghanistan.
The aim of the transnational Eurasian Technologies and Systems for Information Management (TASIM) consists in setting up the information network between the West and the East and simplification of an access to information-communication technologies of the countries in the region.
This system should connect the countries of Eastern Europe, the CIS countries, Turkey, Iran, Central Asian countries, including Afghanistan and Pakistan, with an access to China and India, as well as to set up conditions for development of the new transnational gigantic information network in this region. It is planned that the project will involve 20 countries.
