Uzbekistan suggests holding TRACECA summit


Interfax
December 8

Uzbekistan has invited the TRACECA (Transport Corridor Europe Caucasus Asia) countries to take part in a summit held under the aegis of the EU, Uzbek Foreign Minister Sadyk Safayev told a briefing in Tashkent on Friday.

During his visit to Bulgaria on November 24-26, the Uzbek president proposed the idea of signing a multilateral agreement on tariff preferences and legal conditions for intensifying trade on TRACECA routes, Safayev said.

The program participants are Azerbaijan, Armenia, Bulgaria, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Mongolia, Romania, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Uzbekistan and Ukraine.