Turkmenistan - Russia: course towards diversification of bilateral partnership
Turkmenistan - Russia: course towards diversification of bilateral partnership
The next significant step in establishing fruitful cooperation between Turkmenistan and the Russian Federation was the Turkmen-Russian business forum held today in the conference hall of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
A representative delegation of the Russian Federation headed by Prime Minister of Russia Mikhail Mishustin arrived in the Turkmen capital to participate in the business meeting. Among the high-ranking guests are the President of the Republic of Tatarstan of the Russian Federation Rustam Minnikhanov, who is in our country on a working visit, and the heads of a number of other constituent entities of the Russian Federation. The delegation includes heads and leading specialists of government structures, line ministries, government agencies and non-profit organizations, higher educational institutions, large companies and enterprises specializing in various areas of economic activity.
The Turkmen side was represented by some vice-premiers, heads of ministries and sectoral departments, state concerns, associations, committees, banks, the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, a number of universities of the country, etc.
In the first half of the day, round tables were held, during which an interested exchange of views took place on new opportunities for cooperation in the field of industrial cooperation and construction production, innovation and information technologies, as well as on trends and ways of bilateral cooperation in the transport and logistics sector. The subject of a detailed discussion was the issues of Turkmen-Russian cooperation through educational institutions.
Also, meetings were held between a number of ministries and sectoral departments of the two countries, within which issues related to the use of efficient enterprises in various groups are considered.
In general, as emphasized, today's event made it possible to identify the most promising ways to deepen productive interaction. The practical implementation of the agreements reached during the meeting will contribute to the diversification of trade and investment exchanges, the implementation of new joint projects in various fields.
Tomorrow, as expected, bilateral meetings will be held between representatives of ministries, departments, private structures and businessmen of Turkmenistan and the Russian Federation to discuss priority areas of cooperation and plans for further partnership.
It is also planned to hold a joint meeting of the Turkmen-Russian and Russian-Turkmen business councils, the signing of bilateral documents between business circles.
Among the planned events is the opening of a trade and exhibition site for Russian manufacturers "Trading House of Russia".
Today, the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin, as part of an official visit to our country, visited the Joint Turkmen-Russian General Education School named after A.S. Pushkin.
During his speech to the staff and students of the school, the guest noted that in recent years, relations between Turkmenistan and Russia have received a powerful impetus in their development and reached a qualitatively new level. As emphasized, within the framework of bilateral humanitarian cooperation, special attention is paid to the field of education. This is one of the evidences of the two states' invariable adherence to the traditional bonds of friendship, mutual readiness to build up a mutually beneficial partnership.
