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Project Rationale and Linkage to Country/Regional Strategy |
The Project will promote economic growth and poverty reduction in the Kyrgyz Republic by rehabilitating a section of the Osh-Sary Tash-Irkeshtam road, which will extend the rehabilitated Bishkek to Osh corridor further into the southern region of the Kyrgyz Republic and to neighboring countries. The Project will foster regional cooperation by rehabilitating a key transport corridor linking the Kyrgyz Republic, PRC, and Uzbekistan. The project road links the population and production centers of Uzbekistan's part of the Fergana Valley and Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in the PRC.
The Osh-Sary Tash-Irkeshtam road link important commercial centers in the Kyrgyz Republic, PRC and Uzbekistan. The road also provides connections to Afghanistans and Tajikistan to the south and to Almaty, other cities in Kazakhstan, and the Russian Federation to the north. At SaryTash, there is a junction with the road leading to the border with Tajikistan. At Osh, the project connects to the Bishkek-Almaty road. By providing an intermodal link between the railway networks of the PRC and Uzbekistan, which terminate in Kashgar and Osh respectively, rehabilitation of the project road will enable the formation of a comprehensive intermodal transporation network extending from Western Europe to the coastal regions of the PRC.
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