From: Justin Burke (JBurke@sorosny.org)
Date: Fri Apr 28 2000 - 12:53:54 EDT
KAZAKHSTAN SUMMIT PARTICIPANTS DISCUSS TRANSPORTATION
PROJECTS
Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze told the
Eurasia-2000 summit in Almaty on 27 April that the TRACECA
transportation network should be expanded to include a north-
south transportation link running through Russian territory,
Caucasus Press reported. A Russian scholar had recently
called for making the route though the Caucasus the hub of
any new Eurasian transport system. Russian Deputy Prime
Minister Viktor Khristenko, for his part, said that a single
Eurasian transport system should include an east-west route
from China across the Russian Federation, Belarus, and Poland
to Germany, according to Interfax. Khristenko also pushed for
a single investment system within the CIS in order to
strengthen stability and economic development. LF
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