OREANDA-NEWS. August 31, 2010.  A meeting with a delegation of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) led by Mohammad Mirzaei Kahagh, Director of the Transport and Communications Department, who had arrived on a working visit to the Turkmen capital, was held at the Ministry of Motor Transport of Turkmenistan.

The main purpose of the meeting was to discuss the issues related to organizing and holding the test truck rally in the framework of the Silk Road Truck Caravan Project of ECO member countries through the territory of Turkmenistan. The rally will start in the capital of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Tehran this September.

During the meeting it was noted that close cooperation of Turkmenistan with the ECO, a large international organisation founded to promote constructive economic cooperation of countries in the region, was filled with a new content today and became more effective and fruitful in key areas, including the transport and communications sectors.

Emphasis was put on the willingness to intensify fruitful interregional partnership in this field on a long-term basis. The meeting participants were briefed on the major aspects of the project aimed at studying and analyzing new routes that could connect transport routes of countries in the region.