OREANDA-NEWS. March 05, 2010. A quadrilateral meeting of co-chairmen of the councils for long-term cooperation between bordering regions took place in Russian Kaliningrad, reported the Official website government.by.

Belarus Vice Premier Andrei Kobyakov, Poland Deputy Interior Minister Piotr Stachanczyk, Lithuania Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Evaldas Ignatavicius, and Kaliningrad Oblast Governor Georgy Boos took part in the meeting.

The sides discussed transit, transboundary cooperation, formation of a common energy market, facilitation of visa procedures, and joint humanitarian youth projects.

A decision was made to initiate a meeting of transport ministers of Belarus, Russia and Lithuania as well as heads of railway authorities of the three countries for the sake of discussing organizational measures meant to produce competitive cargo transportation terms, to synchronize tariff policies, explore the comfortable cargo transit opportunities that the 2K Project offers (Kaliningrad and Klaipeda ports), and to discuss the construction of Russian-European energy bridges.

There are also plans to work out a system for the preliminary sharing of information about cargoes that are supposed to cross the border for the sake of boosting the throughput capacity of border checkpoints. As a positive example Andrei Kobyakov mentioned cooperation with the Kaliningrad Oblast.

At the meeting a presentation of a project for setting up a major international cultural and educational center for the youth and students of the Baltic Sea region. The Baltic Artek project is supposed to be a new site for communications between the youth.

Participants of the meeting decided that such meetings should be held every year. The next quadrilateral meeting will take place in Minsk in 2011.