The President of the Republic of Iraq is ready to pay an official visit to Turkmenistan in the near future. This is stated in the message of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan to the media following the visit of the Turkmen delegation headed by the chairman of the State Concern "Turkmengaz" from October 5 to 8 to Baghdad, distributed on Sunday through the state information agency TDH.
Uzbekistan is strengthening on the London Stock Exchange and was the first among the CIS countries to place sovereign "green" bonds in national currency worth 4.25 trillion soms and Eurobonds worth $ 660 million on the exchange. Two tranches are planned to be repaid in 2028 and 2026, respectively, the press service of the Ministry of Economy and Finance of Uzbekistan reports.
In Kabul on Saturday, a contract was signed with a local private company to carry out the remaining work to complete the 500 kV Turkmenistan-Afghanistan power transmission line.
Technical working sessions on trade policy issues organized by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) were held in Turkmenistan from October 2-6. The purpose of the sessions was to prepare a Memorandum on the Foreign Trade Regime (MFTR) – a key document for negotiations on Turkmenistan's accession to the WTO.
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani met with the Minister of State, Chairman of the state concern "Turkmengaz" Maksat Babayev and his accompanying delegation, Mawazine News reported on Saturday, citing a statement from the office of the head of the Iraqi government.
Iraqi and Turkmenistan officials met in Baghdad on Thursday and discussed signing a gas supply contract following their initial agreement in August, the official Iraqi News Agency reported on Friday.
During the regular meeting of the Turkmen government on the results of the work for the first nine months of this year, Deputy Prime Minister Batyr Amanov reported to President Serdar Berdimuhamedov on the results of the work of the supervised oil and gas industry.
In January-September of this year, the growth rate for the performance of works and the provision of services of the Transport and Communication Agency (TCA) under the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan as a whole amounted to 123.3%.
The establishment of air communication between Ashgabat and Dushanbe, as well as other opportunities for bilateral cooperation in the transport and communication sphere were discussed by Mammetkhan Chakyyev, Director General of for Transport and Communications Agency under the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan, and Niyatbekzoda Vafo, Ambassador of the Republic of Tajikistan to Turkmenistan. This is stated in the message of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, published on Thursday, October 5.
Turkmenistan considers international cooperation in the transport and logistics sector as one of the priorities of its foreign policy. In this regard, the development of the multimodal transport route CASCA+, in the implementation of which Turkmenistan actively participates, is a vivid example of effective cooperation.
Modernization of customs mechanisms and improvement of export procedures became one of the main topics of the three-day seminar held in Ashgabat from October 3 to 5.
Azerbaijani Economy Minister Mikail Jabbarov, who is on a visit to Ashgabat at the head of his country's delegation, held a series of talks in the government of Turkmenistan on Wednesday.
“Among the potential suppliers of petroleum products to the territory of the Eurasian Economic Union, we see refineries of Turkmenistan, the People’s Republic of China. This process is proceeding in a working order,” Energy Minister Almasadam Satkaliyev said at a press conference on Wednesday.
The meeting of the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Berdyniyaz Myatiyev with the Regional Director of the World Bank for Central Asia Tatiana Proskuryakova took place on Wednesday in Ashgabat in the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan.
The capabilities of the Turkmen shipyard "Balkan", which has started the construction of the first vessels, aroused particular interest among the participants of the VI International transport and logistics business Forum "New Silk Way", which is taking place on Wednesday, October 4, in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan.
