150. The new Act on Compulsory Education does not change the ratio between special education and the mainline education, i.e. 20 per cent, although all the costs are now paid by the municipalities.

We were most gratified by the fact that the first noticeable impetus in this process to a large extent was the construction initiated by us and the Islamic Republic of Iran of the Tedzhen Serakhs Mashhad railway line, which has become the quot golden link quot in the Istanbul Beijing trans Asian mainline and provided the States of the region with maximum outlet to the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea.