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On Tuesday, Special Representative of the Chinese Government for Eurasian Affairs Li Hui held talks in Ashgabat with Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov.

The Turkmen company Bir Kuwwat in partnership with the Chinese Shanxi Investment Group International Logistics Co. Ltd. provided transportation of 850 tons of licorice root from Turkmenistan to China via a multimodal route.

The diplomatic Mission of Turkmenistan in China has begun preparations for the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the birth of the great Turkmen poet and thinker Magtymguly Pyragy with an event to which it invited representatives of the Chinese Equestrian Industry Association, cultural, scientific and business circles of the Celestial Empire.

The IX China‒Central Asia Cooperation Forum will be held in a videoconference format next week, on July 12 and 13. The forum is dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the PRC and the Central Asian states and is aimed at further development of relations.

On June 8, 2022, the third meeting of foreign ministers of the China-Central Asia format took place in Nur-Sultan. At the meeting, the "China + Five Central Asian Countries Initiative to Deepen Interconnection and Cooperation" was adopted.

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov and Minister of Foreign Affairs of China Wang Yi discussed a wide range of issues of bilateral cooperation, with an emphasis on the implementation of agreements reached at the highest state level.

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov will travel to Kazakhstan to attend the third meeting of the heads of foreign affairs agencies of Central Asian countries and China.

Turkmenistan in January-April 2022 increased natural gas exports to China by 1.53 times in monetary terms compared to the same period in 2021, TASS writes with reference to the Main Customs Administration of the People's Republic of China.

On March 22, 2022 local time, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi was invited to attend and speak at the opening ceremony of the Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).

President Serdar Berdimuhamedov met on Tuesday with a member of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, Defense Minister Wei Fenghe, who is visiting Ashgabat.