ASTANA, Kazakhstan, August 23. Kazakhstan has appointed Sapar Bektasov as a permanent representative in the secretariat of the Transport Corridor Europe Caucasus Asia (TRACECA), Trend reports.
This is stated in the document on appointment of the head of the permanent mission of the permanent secretariat of the TRACECA in Kazakhstan.
Earlier, Sapar Bektasov worked in Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Transport as the director of department of transport policy.
The TRACECA program was established in 1993 based on the Brussels Declaration with the participation of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Moldova, Mongolia, and Ukraine later joined the program. In 2000, Türkiye, Romania, and Bulgaria joined, followed by Iran in 2009. In organizational terms, TRACECA functions as an intergovernmental commission.
TRACECA aims to foster the advancement of regional transport connectivity and ensure the effectiveness and reliability of Euro-Asian transport connections.