By Trend
Turkmen-Russian high-level negotiations were held in Ashgabat on
May 7, 2019, Trend reports referring to the Turkmen Embassy
in Azerbaijan.
The delegation of the Russian Federation headed by Deputy
Chairman of the Government, Head of State Administration Konstantin
Chuychenko arrived in Turkmenistan to participate in the talks.
In the first half of the day, the Russian delegation was
received by President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov.
During the meeting, the parties discussed current issues related to
Turkmen-Russian relations in political, trade-economic and
cultural-humanitarian spheres.
Then, the 11th session of Intergovernmental Turkmen-Russian
Commission on Economic Cooperation was held in the premises of the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan.
During the session, the parties spoke about the key aspects of
bilateral cooperation, particularly issues of trade and economic
nature. The participants elaborated on the subjects related to the
development of mutually beneficial cooperation between profile
ministries and agencies of the two countries, implementation of
agreements, as well as talked about the process of executing trade
actions.
The parties considered the joint projects, issues related to the
work of Russian companies on the territory of Turkmenistan, as well
as prospects of cooperation in the industry, construction,
transport, oil and gas, gas-chemical and electro-energy
spheres.
Upon completion of the session, the ceremony of signing
bilateral documents took place. These included: “Protocol of the
11th session of Intergovernmental Turkmen-Russian Commission on
Economic Cooperation”, “Memorandum between the Chamber of Commerce
and Industry of Turkmenistan and the Government of Astrakhan region
on establishing a Turkmen-Astrakhan Joint Council on commercial
issues”, “Agreement between All-Russia State Institute of
cinematography named after S.A.Gerasimov and State Committee of
Turkmenistan for Television, Radiobroadcasting and Cinematography
on Cooperation in the area of elevating the qualifications of
Turkmen specialists”, “Agreement between the Federal State
Budgetary Establishment ‘Moscow Helmholtz Research Institute of Eye
Diseases” of the Ministry of Healthcare of Russian Federation and
the Scientific-Clinical Centre of Eye Diseases of the State Medical
University of Turkmenistan named after Murad Garriyev”.
It is worthwhile to note that the day before, on May 6, 2019,
the meeting of experts of the two countries was held in the
framework of preparations to the above mentioned meeting.
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