Doha: The Minister of Transport and Communications H E Jassim bin Saif Al Sulaiti and the Minister of the Transport and Roads of the Kyrgyz Republic Jamshitbek Kalilov signed today an air services agreement between Qatar and the Kyrgyz Republic. The agreement comes within the framework of connecting Qatar with more air services agreements, permitting its national carrier to expand its destinations all around the world. Following the signing ceremony, the two ministers discussed the bilateral relations between the two friendly countries in the fields of transport, mobility and aviation and means of further enhancing them. The two officials also agreed to sign an MoU in the near future in the field of land transport. The MoU will focus on commodities and goods transportation from Bishkek to Doha on 7-day trips. This comes within the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) that aims to revive the Silk Road that connects Asia, Africa and Europe to form an economic belt to help expand economic and cultural exchange, as well as to link groups of small emerging nations and traditional G20 emerging nations.