Russia and Belgium have entered into the intergovernmental agreement on the international automobile communication. As it became known, the document has been signed on Friday on results of negotiations of prime ministers of Russia and Belgium.
Making comments on the signed document, minister of transport of the Russian Federation Igor Levitin has explained journalists, that this agreement creates more favorable conditions for automobile carriers of both countries which are carrying out the international transportations and pawns a basis for the further growth of volumes of transportations of cargoes and passengers between Russia and Belgium.
Besides, the minister has noted that it simplifies procedure of entrance of the Russian and Belgian vehicles in territory of both states. Also, Levitin considers that this agreement will promote integration Russian auto carriers in the European transport market.
Levitin has informed that before this agreement the international transportations between Russia and Belgium were carried out on the basis of the intergovernmental agreement of 1973, in which the question of the third countries carriers work has not been settled. The minister has explained that this question is solved in the new agreement. Now these carriers should receive the sanction at Russia or Belgium.
Let’s remind that the volume of cargoes transportations between Russia and Belgium made 480 thousand tons in 2006.