Turkmen Foreign Minister to visit New Delhi and Islamabad
President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov sent a Turkmen delegation headed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs on a mission to New Delhi and Islamabad to attend on December 18-20 the “Central Asia-India” ministerial dialogue and the emergency session of the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation on the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan.
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov reported to the President on the preparations for these international meetings at a government meeting on Friday. In addition to multilateral negotiations, bilateral political consultations, which the leadership of the Turkmen Foreign Ministry will hold with colleagues from India and Pakistan are also planned.
As expected, in addition to Afghan issues, the agenda of interaction between Ashgabat, New Delhi and Islamabad will include regional projects that have socio-economic development for the entire region. This is the construction of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India gas pipeline, power transmission lines and fiber-optic communication Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan.
Turkmenistan has already implemented a number of infrastructure projects with the participation of Afghanistan, supplies its southern neighbor with electricity at preferential rates, is building a railway branch in Afghanistan, and regularly provides humanitarian assistance to the Afghan people. Another humanitarian aid has been delivered to Herat province this week, on Tuesday.
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