Strategies and plans of UIC-Middle East Office ( )

Strategies of the UIC-Middle East Regional Office to make use of strengths and opportunities and to remove threats and weaknesses  Effective interaction with M.E. countries and the transport companies  Effective interaction with UIC and international railway organizations, carrying out joint work and using their experience;  Interaction with other UIC regions; benefiting from their experience and performing multiregional projects;  Setting up technical working groups for Middle-East;  Attraction of new members from ME, Asia and local transport companies;  Cooperation for execution of the plans forecasted in the Action Plan;  Defining and implementing the regional projects;  Identifying the decision-makers and stakeholders of transport organizations in the region

Projects and plans of the UIC- Middle East Office based on the strategies

Strategy I. Effective interaction with countries in the region and promote the cooperation spirit among the ME members  Launching website for ME railways  Creating for ME  Determining the liaisons from each ME railway  Encouraging the members to have positive involvement in the regional and global events  Following up the execution of the decisions adopted in the ME Regional Assembly;  Preparing and disseminating the RAME minutes to the members.

Strategy II. Effective interaction with UIC and other international railway organizations  Identifying the methods of cooperation with international organizations like UN-ESCWA, ECO and UNESCAP in order to carry out joint activities and consolidate the ME region;  Concluding tri-lateral MOU amongst ECO, UIC and UIC Office ;  Taking part in UIC training workshops and conferences ;  Involving in UIC study projects and making them operational in Middle East region.

Strategy III. More interaction with the other regions of UIC, benefiting from their experience in progress of the activities of Tehran Office  Identifying methods of cooperation with Asian Region ;  Involving the Asian railways in the M.E. technical meetings;  Participation of the ME representatives in the technical meetings of Asia;  Implementing joint activities, e.g.joint educational workshops;  Holding joint seminars in line with making regional corridors operational;  Setting up professional working groups.

Strategy IV. Setting up technical working groups for Middle-East  Setting up the safety working group;  Setting up the infrastructure working group;  Setting up the security working group;  Setting up the corridors working group;  Setting up the freight working group.

Strategy V. Attraction of new members from ME, Asia and local transport companies  Membership of Jordan Hejaz in UIC;  Membership of the capable Iranian and other countries' rail transport companies in the RAME;  Membership of transport institute of UAE and Qatar in RAME;  Membership of the ECO member railways in RAME.

Strategy VI. Cooperation in execution of the plans and events seen in the annual Action Plan  Convening the second Educational Seminar on Safety;  Cooperating for holding the Infrastructure Management Seminar in Jordan, preparing the program of the seminar;  Cooperation with the Turkish State Railways (TCDD) for holding the Conference of "Towards an Interconnected and Competitive System";  Cooperating for organizing Middle East Investors Forum;  Cooperating for organizing first Conference on Oil Transport by Rail.

Strategy VII. Defining and implementing the regional projects within the member countries  Studying the corridors passing through ME region;  Carrying studies on launching the scheduled freight trains among the countries of the region.

Strategy VIII. Identifying the decision-makers and stakeholders of transport organizations in the region  Preparing a databank containing a list of transport ministers, railway authorities, banks, regional/international investment institutions, and rail transport companies;  Contact details of the countries, organizations, departments and personnel;  Interaction with ports and shipping lines.

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