On April 17, the 4th meeting of the ministers of transport of the Turkic Council was held. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Transport and Roads.
Secretary General of the Turkic Council Baghdad Amreyev, Minister of Transport and Roads of Kyrgyzstan Zhanat Beishenov, Vice-Minister of Transport and Infrastructure of Turkey Selim Dursun, Deputy Minister of Industry and Infrastructure Development of Kazakhstan Berik Kamaliyev, Head of Transport Regulation Department of the Ministry of Transport, Communications and High Technologies of Azerbaijan, State Secretary responsible for transport policy of the Ministry of Innovation and Technology of Hungary took part in the meeting.
During the meeting, representatives of the transport departments of the Turkic Council confirmed their interest in the development of the Trans-Caspian corridor and discussed the possibility of demonstration of a container block train and a road caravan along the transport corridor from China to Europe through Turkey.
On the issue of accession of Kyrgyzstan to the Memorandum of Understanding on sister ports, Kyrgyzstan is exploring the possibility of joining the “dry port”. This is due to the growing trade flow along the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan axis. In addition, with the Turkish side the issue of opening the Osh-Istanbul flight and the parties was also discussed and found mutual understanding on this issue. According to the Minister of Transport of the Kyrgyz Republic Beishenov, the states of the Turkic Council have chance of becoming an intercontinental transit bridge connecting the economic and transport corridors of China, Central Asia, Russia, the Caucasus and Europe.
Speaking about cooperation with Turkey, the minister added that regular flights en route Bishkek-Istanbul are increasing every year, but there is a need to increase flights. “I would like to ask the Turkish side to resume flights with our southern capital, the city of Osh, to Istanbul, ” said Beishenov.
