Ministers of Transport of the RF, Germany, Poland and Lithuania will have a meeting in February dedicated to the issues of transport development of Kaliningrad Oblast - I.Levitin

Kaliningrad750.ru. Germany has supported the proposal of Russia concerning the meeting of Ministers of Transport of the RF, Germany, Poland and Lithuania in order to discuss transport development of Kaliningrad Oblast. This was announced on Tuesday by the Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Igor Levitin.

Igor Levitin reported before that the meeting was planned to be held in February, 2005, in Kaliningrad. In particular, special attention will be drawn to organizing high-speed railroad link Moscow –Berlin and Berlin-St. Petersburg. The issues of cargo transit through Kaliningrad Oblast will also be discussed. The sides agreed that the experts of the European Union should be involved into the solution of these problems.

The Russian Federation and Germany also plan to organize a joint commission on transport right, which will allow to significantly promote the relations with the EU and harmonize the transport legislation within the dialogue between the Russian Federation and the European Union.

The Minister stated that the proposal on meeting was advanced in the course of negotiations with the Minister of Transport, Construction and Housing Services of Germany Manfred Stolpe. The negotiations took place in Hamburg on Monday evening within the framework of Russian-German interstate consultations.

The prospects of constructing express roads in Russia, in particular the participation of Germany in constructing Moscow -St. Petersburg highway and the Western High-speed Diameter city highway in St. Petersburg were also discussed at the negotiations. I.Levetin and M. Stolpe paid great attention to the issues of facilitating navigation in the Baltic Sea, as well as the issues of control and monitoring of ships movement.