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ASEAN countries pledge to upgrade regional transport amidst pandemic

ASEAN Member States have committed to improving transport in the region in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic continuing to seriously affect this sector.
ASEAN countries pledge to upgrade regional transport amidst pandemic ảnh 1Moc Bai Border Gate at Vietnam-Cambodia border (Photo: Backpacker Le)
Phnom Penh (VNA) – ASEAN Member States have committed to improvingtransport in the region in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic continuing toseriously affect this sector.

The joint commitment was made at the 40th ASEAN TransportFacilitation Meeting held via videoconference on March 23-24 by Cambodia.

Kong Sophal, deputy head of the Cambodian General Departmentof Land Transport who chaired the meeting, told The Phnom Penh Post on March 25that the meeting focused on four ASEAN Framework Agreements related to regionaltransport restoration.

These agreements began to be implemented step by step. Butdue to the problem of the pandemic, the agreements have faltered a lot, hesaid, adding that the delegation had discussed ways of continuing the transferof goods at borders and how to facilitate transportation.

At the meeting, representatives of ASEAN countries agreed ontwo documents – the post-COVID-19 recovery programme and the preparation of aspecial route for traders who are obliged to leave and enter countries.

The meeting also discussed problems relating to customs,insurance, transport surveillance systems and legal framework development insupport for all modes of transport./.
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