Railway passenger traffic between Belarus and Latvia may be opened in 2011

May 14, Vitebsk / Sergey Kochetov - BELTA /. Railway passenger service between Belarus and Latvia may be launched in 2011. This was announced today to journalists in Vitebsk by the Minister of Transport and Communications of Belarus Ivan Shcherbo, BELTA correspondent reports. In Vitebsk, the minister is participating in a republican seminar dedicated to energy saving issues in the organizations of the Ministry of Transport. "I cannot definitively assure that such service will be launched precisely next year, but we are actively working in this direction together with our Latvian colleagues, and appropriate instructions have been given to Belarusian Railways and the Latvian railway administration," Ivan Shcherbo said. In addition, this issue is being actively worked out by the Belarusian-Latvian commission on trade and economic cooperation, which is co-chaired by the transport ministers of Belarus and Latvia. Various passenger route options are being considered, including Minsk-Riga and Gomel-Minsk-Riga, Ivan Shcherbo added. -0-