The Republic of Moldova and Ukraine included the signing of bilateral agreements on the liberalization of road and air transport between the two sides in this year’s bilateral agenda. Prime Minister Pavel Filip, who, together with the Premier of Ukraine Volodimir Groisman, took part in the second International Transport Conference “Integrated Transport Corridors Europe-Asia”, said that special attention should be devoted to the quality of the roads that connect Chisinau and Odessa and to the rehabilitation of the Basarabeasca-Berezino railroad section and these issues should be covered by the transport strategies of the two states, IPN reports.

According to the Government‘s press service, Pavel Filip underlined the necessity of repairing the Platonovo-Liubashevka road and the opportunity of constituting a joint customs posts Palanka-Mayaki-Udobnoe and of intensifying cooperation with the aim of including the Edinet-Vinnita direction in the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T).

The Premier said the state sector policy of the Republic of Moldova in transport and logistics is based on three poles: harmonization of the national legislation with the EU regulations; integration into the international transport corridors and liberalization of transport markets and diminution of transit costs.