Andrey Denisov
Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United
Nations |
South-East Asian countries, China, in particular,
have demonstrated high rates of economic
development over the past decade. This,
in turn, leads to the growth of trade in this
region and an expansion of economic ties
with other ones. Alongside with the EU and
the USA, China has become a world leader as
to trade volumes. Further dynamics and structure
of world economic growth in the coming
decade will be largely determined by the speed
of further economic and socio-political
reforms in China and the country's interaction
with other world centres of influence.
These issues are a matter of constant and
close attention of the UN and its regional
economic commissions, UNECE and
UNESCAP. These bodies, together with other
UN structures, make efforts to create
suitable conditions of economic growth in
the region, and the region's early integration
in a global system of economic relations. A
vastly important part of this process should
be the creation of rationally and efficiently
organized transport flows, within certain
corridors connecting South-East Asian countries
with the rest of the world.
An important role in this process belongs to
the International Road Transport Union
(IRU), which in the course of several years has
paid special attention to the development of
road transport in the CIS countries and the
Euro-Asian region as a whole. Evidence of this
is the already third international conference,
organized by the IRU, this time in China, on
related matters as well as the initiative to
launch the Beijing-Brussels Road Transport
Caravan that is intended to prove in practice
the efficiency of commercial haulage over the
Euro-Asian land bridge.
I wish the participants in the 3rd IRU Euro-
Asian Road Transport Conference successful
work, and the participants in the historic
Caravan no trouble and difficulties on the road.
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