Republic

Belarus is interested in the joint efforts of the CIS member states on the setting up of the transportation and logistics infrastructure that provides an efficient supply of the CIS goods to the international markets, BelTA learnt from the Administration of the President of Belarus. At the suggestion of Kyrgyzstan, transportation was identified as a key issue on the agenda of the Commonwealth for 2008. Belarusian experts believe that a number of measures should be taken to make international transit of goods across the CIS more attractive, competitive and profitable. According to the Presidential Administration, the CIS member states suffer great losses because of the poorly organized market of the international transportation services in the CIS, in particular, the transit services. The main goal of the Concept of the CIS further development established on October 5, 2007 is to expand the cooperation in the area of transportation, including the creation of international transport corridors, to raise the efficiency of tariff policy as well as the cooperation between various kinds of transport. Among the practical measures are the implementation of the Concept of the agreed transport policy for the period till 2010 and the Concept of the agreed tariff policy for the railway transport, the Memorandum of the CIS cooperation in the area of international transport corridors.