Azerbaijan, Baku, June 8 / Trend , S.Aliyev /
The next meeting of TRACECA (Transport Corridor Europe-Caucasus-Asia) Intergovernmental Commission will be held in Kyrgyzstan on June 15-16. Kyrgyzstan will preside the transport corridor aftermath of the meeting, Akif Mustafayev, Azerbaijan's national coordinator in TRACECA, said.
"The meeting will gather national secretaries of TRACECA on June 15, and the intergovernmental conference will be held on June 16," Mustafayev said.
A range of issues, including the one concerning reforms in the TRACECA institutes, is being prepared for consideration at the session. But the Organization's member states are inclined to cover this matter in the context and after election of new secretary general of TRACECA," Mustafayev said.
The TRACECA Multilateral Agreement was signed in Baku in 1998 and composes Azerbaijan, Turkey, Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Armenia.
Turkmenistan is a member of TRACECA, but not a member of the Multilateral Agreement.
In April 2005, two more countries joined the Multilateral Agreement - Iran and Afghanistan. However, neither of the two countries are participants of the EU TRACECA program.
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