In his intervention, Ambassador Alpogan, Deputy Secretary General for Transport and Urban Development discussed the work the UfM, outlining\u00a0 the current areas of cooperation and more precisely, the common projects between the UfM and the 5+5 GTMO. He also expressed his willingness to visit Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria to discuss the technicalities of two UfM labeled transport projects, namely the \u201cCompletion of the Central Section of the Trans-Maghreb Motorway Axis\u201d and \u201cLOGISMEDTA\u201d, as well as inform about the projects \u201cSouthern Mediterranean Maritime Highway Sues-Gibraltar\u201d, \u201cMaghreb Railway Axis\u201d and \u201cCompletion of VTS\/VTMIS systems\u201d which are currently under evaluation.<\/p>\n
The ministers and the representatives of the international organizations highlighted the importance and benefits of the cooperation between the UfM and the 5+5 GTMO, and referred to the recently labeled \u201cCompletion of the Central Section of the Trans-Maghreb Motorway Axis\u201d as an important step for the integration of the Maghreb region.<\/p>\n
During the conclusion of the meeting, the UfMS was congratulated for the labeling of the GTMO 5+5 project which is to complete the central section of the trans-Maghreb motorway axis, and the decision was also taken to present the trans-Maghreb rail axis project and the VTS\/VTMIS network project to the UfM for labeling.\u00a0 It was also agreed to collaborate in the LOGISMED project and the work initiated by the UfMS regarding maritime safety, the motorways of the sea and land motorways was acknowledged.<\/p>\n
It is worthwhile mentioning that Algeria who\u2019s Minister of Transport chaired the conference has taken presidency (2012-2014) of the group after Italy (2009-2012).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Algiers – The Transport and Urban Development Division of the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfMS), attended on the 13th March 2012 the 7th Conference of Transport Ministers of the Western Mediterranean Countries (5+5 GTMO), held in Algiers. The UfMS was among the three international organizations, together with the EC and the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"priority-area":[],"class_list":["post-6092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actualites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90650,"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6092\/revisions\/90650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6092"},{"taxonomy":"priority-area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/priority-area?post=6092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}