AKIPRESS.COM – Uzbekistan comes up with a number of proposals to expand cooperation between SCO member states in transport, Prime Minister of Uzbekistan Abdulla Aripov said at the 22nd meeting of the Council of Heads of Government of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization countries on October 26 in Bishkek.
He recalled that the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev called the SCO region a space of enormous economic opportunities, as well as a platform and resource base for the development of all countries of the association during SCO Summit in July.
The Prime Minister of Uzbekistan then suggested strengthening transport and communication ties in the SCO region.
He noted active promotion of projects for development of North-South and East-West highways. According to Abdulla Aripov, start of construction of the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway is particularly important.
“We stand for increasing multimodal transport along this route, as well as through Afghanistan in the direction of the ports of Iran and Pakistan,” Prime Minister Aripov said.
Implementation of such projects will reduce transport costs of the countries of the region by a third.
The Uzbek government also proposed developing a unified map of transport connectivity among the SCO member states.
Abdulla Aripov expressed hope these issues will be considered on November 1 in Tashkent within the framework of the first SCO Transport Forum.
Source: Akipress
