Issues of transit and transport cooperation discussed

On May 2, 2023, a meeting was held at the Embassy of Kazakhstan in Latvia with the Director of the Department of Transport Logistics and International Cooperation of the Ministry of Transport of the Republic of Latvia Elina Luce and the senior expert of the department Elina Shtrodaha. The meeting was attended online by Deputy State Secretary of the Ministry of Transport, Head of the Kazakh-Latvian Working Group on Transport Uldis Reimanis.

The main purpose of the meeting was to discuss topical issues of bilateral cooperation in the transit and transport sector, as well as organizational and substantive aspects of the upcoming multilateral and bilateral events in Kazakhstan and Latvia in May-June of this year.

In particular, the participation of a representative Latvian delegation in the 2nd EU-Central Asia Economic Forum in Almaty on May 18-19 this year, as well as in the Astana International Forum on June 8-9 this year. In addition, the parties discussed the possibility of holding in the second decade of June in Riga a regular meeting of the Kazakh-Latvian Working Group on Transport at the level of deputy ministers of the relevant departments of the two countries, as well as a regional business forum with the participation of representatives of the transport industry and business circles from the Republic of Kazakhstan and countries of  Central Asia under the auspices of the USAID Central Asia Trade Program.