OREANDA-NEWS. November 23, 2011. The X Ministerial Conference of the participating countries of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) is taking place in Baku to adopt CAREC Strategy for the period until 2020.

Economic Development Minister Shahin Mustafayev of Azerbaijan has read out a message of greetings from President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev to the event participants.

In it President Aliyev says that Strategy 2020 will open a new stage of development of CAREC. In his opinion, the program can achieve better results in a new phase in its priority areas - transport, trade and energy. In turn, Azerbaijan is ready to expand its collaboration with CAREC and the participating countries.