CIS Railway Council's passenger service commission conducting its session in Yerevan for first time

Representatives of railway authorities in Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Latvia, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine and Estonia are taking part in this three-day session. 

«The commission pays attention to everything related to passenger transportation – from normative acts to services in trains, railway stations and other services provided to passengers,» he said. 

In his words, the key objective of the commission is to work out normative acts, particularly requirements to passenger cars and new sale system, and apply them in the post-Soviet space. 

«Internet ticket purchase availability in post-Soviet space is one of the issues on the agenda,» Verkhovikh said. 

A cooperation agreement between South Caucasus Railway CJS and Federal Passenger Company was signed today as part of the session. Results of the passenger service's work in 2014, ways of mutual decrease of prices by Moldova and Belarus and other issues will be discussed at the session.  

The Council was established on February 14, 1992 for coordinating railways' work at interstate level and outlining general principles for activity. 

The Council's members are Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine. Its associate members are Bulgaria, Georgia, Latvia and Finland. Lithuania and Estonia participate in the council's activity on contractual basis. 

The International Confederation of Railway Workers and Transport Builders' Trade Unions and Iran's Railways are observers at the council. ----0----