OREANDA-NEWS. On February 14, 2008 the BSEC member states backed an idea to construct a Black Sea ring road European Commissioner for External Relations and Neighborhood Policy Benita Ferrero Waldner told a news briefing in Kyiv, reported the Official website www.kmu.gov.ua.

The idea receive a wide support, she said and added that the project will be funded by the BSEC member states.

Notably, BSEC Secretary General Leonidas Chrysantopoulos said yesterday that a today's meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the Black Sea region's states was supposed to see consideration of the ring road issues around the Black Sea.