Russia considers and implements specific projects to cooperate with Turkey in the development of the Arctic. About this the head of the Russian State Corporation “Rosatom” Alexei Likhachev said on Thursday in an interview with Anadola.
Likhacheva asked to answer questions about “Is Russia opened for joint projects to master the Arctic with Turkey, China, India or other countries?”, And also “is it planned to attract foreign investment in infrastructure projects on the Northern Sea Route?”
“You can answer” yes “to this question twice. Firstly, we are open at the state level. I can secretly say that the theme of the development of SMP has repeatedly risen during the meeting of the head of state, government leaders with foreign leaders and was raised not only as an abstract invitation to cooperation, but as a specific topic of building interaction,” said Likhachev.
So, he said, interconnections have been signed, the Russian-Chinese working group, the Russian-Indian relevant group have been created, and these formations have already begun their work.
“There was such a conversation and specific projects are being implemented with our partners in Turkey. We are discussing deeply in Vietnam, with the countries of the Middle East,” the agency’s interlocutor said.
In this sense, interstate relations have already included the agenda of the development of the NSR, the head of the corporation said. “But also at the business level, say, the level of enterprises, the creation of joint structures, the preparation of investment projects is underway. It definitely works with the People’s Republic of China, and this is far from only preparation of presentations, these are specific 14 transit flights through the NSR, with almost one and a half million tons of tons for international transit, this is generally quite such a record indicator. And this is the start of the Likha, all plans are the main ones ahead,” said all plans. He.
According to him, Russia is actively working with the UAE, with a logistics company from there to build long projects and programs for container transportation.
“There are more tasks than in ordinary cargoes, that is, it is necessary to create not only the fleet of the corresponding Arctic class and develop transport routes, it is also important to create ground infrastructure, transport and logistics nodes. And the one who will create the first logistics units, and will moderate the whole process in the Arctic. And such work is also carried out,” added Likhachev.