Urazaev: Kazakhstan will support in every possible way all transport  projects, both in the region, but also in the Eurasian space

ArmInfo.Kazakhstan will in every way support all transport projects that are developing not only in the region, but also in the Eurasian space. This was announced on February 15 in Yerevan at a briefing on the UN resolution adopted by  Turkmenistan, "Strengthening the links between all modes of transport  to achieve sustainable development goals," said Kazakhstan's  ambassador to Armenia Timur Urazaev.

According to him, in this sense, the railway route  "Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran", launched in 2013, is aimed at  transporting goods from the territory of not only Kazakhstan. Urazaev  noted that Kazakhstan, being a country cut off from the high seas, is  trying to become a transit territory for transshipment of goods both  from East to West and from North to South. "Thus, the route"  Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran "has become one of the elements of the  North-South transport corridor, where there are literally somewhere  around 1900 km from Gorgan to the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas. This  route allows, in particular, for transshipment, I say only about  Kazakhstan's cargoes. The decreasing rates on railway tariffs,  including the tariff policy of the CIS countries, are in effect. Low  tariffs give great benefits to businessmen who ensure the  connectivity of our region primarily with Central Asia with Southeast  Asia, and even with Southern Europe," the diplomat said.

At the same time, the Ambassador of Kazakhstan stressed that the  peculiarity of Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan in the implementation of  the transport policy is the transportation of hydrocarbons. According  to him, for its part, Kazakhstan also supported the participation of  partners - Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, India and Pakistan in the  implementation of the TAPI gas pipeline, and there are also many  other projects.  "The fact is that during the presidency of  Kazakhstan in the UN Security Council in January, we identified one  of our priorities as drawing attention to the problems of Afghanistan  and its entry into sub-regional transport corridors, in particular,  if we used to use one transport route from Kazakhstan through  Uzbekistan with access to Afghanistan for transshipment of goods -  grain, oil products, by the way, quite large volumes of trade, but  now we can take advantage of a new route that runs through  Turkmenistan Istan, only with a yield of not Iran, and Afghanistan ",  said Urazaev.

At the same time, the ambassador stressed that Kazakhstan, like its  Turkmen counterparts, attached great importance to the comprehensive  development of transport routes through the territory of Kazakhstan  both in the direction of the North-South and in the direction of the  West-East. He recalled that in Kazakhstan, twenty years after gaining  independence, more railways were built than in all other CIS  countries combined. "This shows one thing that we attach great  importance to the development of transport logistics within  Kazakhstan and in our region. We hope that our partners in Central  Asia, including both Turkmenistan and Armenia from the South  Caucasus, also for their part will develop these routes in order to  ensure the coherence of our intracontinental economy and not only the  countries of the Eurasian Economic Union, but also to ensure the  development of the transport sector in general and related  industries, "the diplomat concluded.