New opportunities for transit and transport cooperation discussed in Liepaja

On February 1, 2023, the Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Latvia Timur Primbetov made a working trip to the city of Liepaja.

The trip was timed to coincide with the visit to Latvia of a Kazakh delegation consisting of the Director General of the Union of Transport Workers of Kazakhstan "KAZLOGISTICS" Yerlan Absatov, Secretary General of the IGC "TRACECA" Asset Assavbayev and a representative of the USAID Trade Program in Central Asia Aizhan Beiseyeva.

During an extended meeting of the Kazakh delegation with the leadership of the Latvian Ministry of Transport, SJSC "Latvijas dzelzceļš" (Latvian Railways), Latvian associations of stevedoring companies and road carriers, as well as large ports (Ventspils, Riga and Liepaja), the prospects for strengthening and expanding bilateral cooperation in transit and transport sector, as well as the possibility of using the international transport corridor "Europe-Caucasus-Asia" (TRACECA) by Latvian carriers were discussed. The practical result of the meeting was an agreement to hold regional business forums in June 2023 in Latvia and Lithuania with the participation of representatives of the transport industry and business circles from the Republic of Kazakhstan and Central Asian countries.

As part of a regional trip, the Ambassador of Kazakhstan visited the Liepaja City Council, where he met with some deputies of the legislative assembly and the Minister of the Interior of the Republic of Latvia Maris Kucinskis, who was in Liepaja on a working visit. T. Primbetov informed the interlocutors about political and socio-economic reforms in Kazakhstan, bilateral Kazakh-Latvian relations. Issues of cooperation in the law enforcement sphere were discussed with the head of the Latvian Ministry of the Interior.