Turkmenistan, Iran, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan signed the final Additional Protocol to the Agreement on the Establishment of an International Transport and Transit Corridor (the Ashgabat Agreement) at the second meeting of the Coordinating Council of the participating countries of this Agreement held in Avaza.
Taking into account the successful experience of swap deliveries of Turkmen gas to Azerbaijan through Iran, official Tehran is ready to expand the transit of the "blue fuel" from Turkmenistan to neighboring countries.
Mammetkhan Chakyev, Director General of the Agency for Transport and Communications under the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan, held a round of bilateral talks with the heads of delegations of the Ministerial Conference of Landlocked Developing Countries on Monday.
Opportunities for opening transport and logistics routes and establishing cooperation between the port of Turkmenbashi with the ports of Dubai and Abu Dhabi, the integration of the Turkmen port into the world system of sea ports were discussed by Deputy Prime Minister, Head of the Turkmen Foreign Ministry Rashid Meredov with the UAE Minister of Energy and Infrastructure Suheil Al-Mazrui.
They were proposed in her video message to the participants of the international transport conference in Avaza by Rabab Fatima, UN Deputy Secretary General, UN High Representative of the Least Developed Landlocked Countries.
Transport connectivity is critical to the future of our countries, in particular to reduce the cost of trade and improve access to global markets, promote the integration of economies and people, and achieve the SDGs.
On Sunday, members of the government of Turkmenistan and the leadership of the transport and communications department of the country held a series of bilateral meetings with heads of delegations and high-ranking representatives of different countries and international organizations.
On Saturday, August 13, 3 deals totaling $305.2 thousand and 1.4 million Turkmen manats were made at the auctions of the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan, ORIENT correspondent reports.
On Friday, August 12, at the auction of the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan, deals were made for the export of products produced by the enterprises of the Ministry of Textile Industry.
The President Serdar Berdimuhamedov instructed the government to begin preparations for the State Council of Turkmenistan, which is to be held on September 23, the official Turkmen press writes today.
Based on the results of an independent audit, the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan confirmed that its activities comply with the international standard ISO 9001-2015, which sets the criteria for a quality management system.
The Caspian Sea is a unique enclosed body of water with unique natural and biodiversity. Its water space equally belongs to all five countries the borders of which it washes - Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan and Russia.
On the sidelines of the conference in Avaza "The Caspian Sea – the Sea of Friendship and Accord" a "round table" was held with the participation of representatives of five coastal states and the UN. The main topic of discussion was the state of cooperation in the Caspian Sea region.
Hotels of the Avaza seaside resort on the Turkmen coast of the Caspian Sea will implement "green" standards. This is provided by the project "Development of sustainable cities: Development of green cities in Ashgabat and Avaza", which is carried out jointly with the UN Development Program.
Experts and specialists from various sectors of the coastal countries of the Caspian Sea are constantly negotiating on the development and coordination of the projects of five-sided documents, and even during the outbreak of the pandemic, these meetings continued in a virtual format.
