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President Basescu: Concrete steps necessary to advance Caspian - Black Sea transport line
Concrete steps are necessary this year to move forward the project of the transport line between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, President Traian Basescu declared on Wednesday.
'An important project of interest for us is promoting a commercial and transport relation from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea in quadripartite format, together with Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Turkmenistan. The goal of this project is to contribute to developing a deeper and more consistent relation between Romania and the EU, on one hand, and the Caspian and Central Asia regions, on the other hand,' said the President at the annual meeting with the heads of the diplomatic missions accredited in Bucharest.
He stressed Romania's advantages within this project.
'Romania has an important advantage within this project, which is exactly what drove us to propose the largest port at the Black Sea, Constanta, and the possibility of a quick linking to one of the largest internal navigation routes of Europe to the Danube, which are vital elements for developing the transport route between the Caspian and the Black Sea. In 2014, concrete steps must be made next to our partners in Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Turkmenistan towards the advancing of this project,' the head of state concluded.