DUSHANBE, 04.06.2019. (NIAT Khovar) – The 47th Ministerial Council Meeting of the Organization for Cooperation of Railways (OSJD) kicked off today in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Tajikistan will be represented by the Deputy Chief of the State Unitary Enterprise Rohi Ohani Tojikiston (Railways of Tajikistan) Usmon Kalandarov, reported the Press Secretary of Rohi Ohani Tojikiston Anvar Latifzoda.

Heads of the ministries of transportation and railway departments of 27 organizations will take part in the meeting.

The meeting participants will be provided with information on the activities of OSJD in 2018 and the work of the Commission of the Organization for Transport Policy and Development Strategy.

Negotiations will go over the current state of interstate transportation, the implementation of large joint projects, the attraction of new innovative technologies to the sphere, the tariff policy and the introduction of new transit corridors.

Official meetings of the heads of railway departments are also scheduled within the meeting.

An outline of the planned projects for 2020 will be developed.

The meeting will continue until June 7.

The OSJD was established at a Ministerial Meeting on June 28, 1956 in Sofia, Bulgaria by ministers responsible for railway transportation. The basis for the existence and operation of the organization is the Regulation on OSJD, which has the character of an international treaty.

The work of OSJD is aimed at the development of international rail transportation, primarily between Europe and Asia, the formation of a coherent transportation policy in the field of international rail transport and the improvement of the International Transport Law.

The OSJD members include the transportation ministries and the central state bodies in charge of railway transport of 27 countries, including Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Slovakia, Romania, Russia, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Ukraine, Poland, Mongolia, Moldova, Lithuania, Latvia, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Hungary, Vietnam, Georgia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, North Korea and South Korea.