The SCO Secretary General called for the creation of a unified system of transport routes in Eurasia
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SCO Secretary General Nurlan Ermekbayev stated the need to form a unified system of interconnected transport routes for the Eurasian states, noting the vulnerability of sea communications and the growing importance of land corridors in the context of the restructuring of global supply chains.
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The SCO and the EAEU are actively developing economic cooperation, including transport infrastructure. In conditions of geopolitical instability and risks for maritime transport, the importance of land transport corridors in Eurasia is increasing.
SCO Secretary General Nurlan Ermekbayev stated the need to form a unified system of interconnected transport routes.
Sea communications are vulnerable, so the importance of Eurasian transport routes for Eurasian states is increasing.
The SCO and the EAEU are faced with the task of connecting the east, west, north and south with a single system of transport routes.
BEIJING, September 17 - RIA Novosti. The SCO and the EAEU need not just to develop separate transport corridors, but to form a unified system of interconnected routes, SCO Secretary General Nurlan Yermekbayev said on Thursday.
“Maritime communications, as we see, have recently been vulnerable and exposed to various kinds of risks; in these conditions, for our states located on the same continent - Eurasia - the importance of Eurasian transport routes and related regulatory norms is objectively increasing,” Yermekbaev said at the round table “EAEU-SCO: intensifying economic cooperation.”
He noted that “the ongoing restructuring of global supply chains places new demands on sustainability and efficiency of transport routes.”
“Therefore, the SCO and the EAEU are faced with the task of not just developing individual transport corridors, but forming a unified system of interconnected routes connecting the east, west, north and south,” he pointed out.
Open Questions
- What specific routes are planned to be integrated into a single system?
- What regulatory and financing mechanisms will be used?
- What is the project deadline?
