Almaty, 22 June 2011. Twenty-three large-scale projects are expected to be fulfilled in the EurAsEC zone before 2020. They will require a total of US $68 billion in investments, including the funds to be provided by international financial institutions and development institutions. These figures were announced today during the roundtable “Prospects for the Development of Transport Infrastructure in the EurAsEC Member States” held in Almaty. The roundtable invited experts from the ministries of transport and communications of Kazakhstan and Belarus, the Eurasian Economic Community, and the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB), and representatives of the EurAsEC member states’ scientific and business communities.
The participants have discussed in
detail the draft Comprehensive Plan to
Develop Roadand Rail Infrastructure for the roads included in
the EurAsEC’s List of
Transport Routes. The plan had been prepared by
research institutes from the EurAsEC member states with the EDB’s technical and financial assistance.
The Plan includes projects implemented at the national level in Kazakhstan, Belarus, the Kyrgyz Republic, Russia, and Tajikistan and within the frameworks of international projects and programmes such as the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Programme, among others. The Plan also includes projects to develop EurAsEC’s international logistic centres to ensure the efficiency and improve the quality of
