On 9th December 2015 Mr. Mircea Ciopraga, TRACECA Secretary General met with Mr. Iuriy Kirinchuk, Minister of Transport and Road Infrastructure of Moldova

Mr. Ciopraga and Mr. Kirinchuk discussed the implementation of the Strategy of the Intergovernmental Commission TRACECA for the development of the international transport corridor Europe-Caucasus-Asia, technical assistance projects in the field of transport and security, legislative harmonization initiatives, trade facilitation and institutional support. The participants of the meeting touched the issue of the implementation of the Action Plan on realization of the Concept of development of international road transport corridor Europe-Caucasus-Asia.

TRACECA EU-programme was initiated by the European Commission in Brussels in the framework of interregional TACIS program in order to facilitate cooperation between Member States in all areas related to the development of trade and transport in the region and the Europe-Caucasus-Central Asia, transportation and simplification of customs procedures between country-members.

Currently, TRACECA includes 13 member countries of the Basic Multilateral Agreement on International Transport for Development of Europe-Caucasus-Asia: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Romania, Tajikistan, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Lithuania, which is provided in the IGC TRACECA as an observer.