AKIPRESS.COM - Turkmenistan acceded to the Basic Multilateral Agreement on International Transport for the Development of the Europe - the Caucasus - Asia Corridor on November 14. The document was adopted in Baku in September 1998, the Foreign Ministry of Turkmenistan said.

The agreement aims to develop economic relations, trade and transport communications in Europe, the Black Sea, the Caucasus, the Caspian Sea and Asia, as well as to promote and facilitate the international transport of goods, ensure traffic safety, harmonize transport policy and create equal conditions for competition between individual modes of transport.