TRACECA is an ambitious interstate programme aimed at supporting the political and economic development in Black Sea Region, Caucasus and Central Asia by means of improvement of the international transport. The programme objectives were formulated in 1993 at the Conference in Brussels ( Brussels Declaration, 1993 ) by the European Commission and the Governments of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan to support their integration into the international economy by improving and enhancing trade and transport.

In the period from 1996 to 1998 Ukraine and Moldova also joined this programme. In 2000 Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey officially applied to the European Commission with a request to join TRACECA programme. Now these countries are also members of TRACECA Programme.

Today the TRACECA programme encompasses thirteen countries: five countries in Europe, three Caucasian states and five countries in Central Asia, each has a unique history, culture, language, political and economic system. The programme in itself is being advanced as a self sustainable tool in trade facilitation and the integration of the economies of the TRACECA member states into the world markets supported by TRACECA organisational development and its further institutionalisation.

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