Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz said during the Turkmen-Turkish Business Forum held in Ashgabat that the volume of trade between our two countries exceeded $2 billion in 2022, reached $2.5 billion in 11 months of this year and is expected to reach about $3 billion by the end of the year. At the same time, the parties set the task to increase the volume of mutual trade to 5 billion.

An exhibition of export goods of the Republic of Turkey, organized by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Turkmenistan jointly with the Turkish company Meridýen Uluslararası Fuarcılık, opened in Ashgabat.

President Serdar Berdimuhamedov received Eric Stewart, Executive Director of the Turkmenistan-USA Business Council, on Tuesday, December 5, discussing with him the state and prospects of bilateral trade and economic cooperation.

The VISA payment system offered Turkmenistan cooperation in the development of non-cash payments. This was announced by the head of the company’s department for work with governments, Zhanna Disenbina, at the Turkmen-American business forum held in Ashgabat.

For the first time, Turkmenistan took part in the meeting of the Permanent Secretariat of the TRACECA Intergovernmental Commission, which was held in Tbilisi on Tuesday, December 5. The Secretary General of the Permanent Secretariat of the IPC TRACECA Asset Asavbayev and other members welcomed Turkmenistan, with the accession to the international program of cooperation between the European Union and partner countries on the organization of the transport corridor "Europe - Caucasus - Asia", the number of its participants reached 14.

The next Turkmen-Russian business forum is being prepared. It will take place on the sidelines of the next meeting of the Intergovernmental Commission on Economic Cooperation of Turkmenistan and the Russian Federation. The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry said this at a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov on Monday.

The US-Turkmenistan Business Council (USTBC) will hold its annual business mission in Ashgabat this week, December 5-7. The mission will include roundtable discussions with a number of senior Turkmenistan government officials, as well as interaction with the US Embassy, USTBC said.

President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, participating in the work of the SOR28 World Climate Summit in Dubai, attended the signing ceremony of a number of agreements between government agencies and business structures of Kazakhstan and other countries, the press service of Akorda reported on Saturday, December 2.

Afghanistan hopes for the speedy resumption of interbank financing channels for the implementation of the Turkmenistan - Afghanistan - Pakistan - India (TAPI) gas pipeline project. The trade attaché of Afghanistan in Ashgabat, Mohammad Harun Saidi, told a TASS correspondent.

Negotiations are taking place in Ashgabat between the railway administrations of Turkmenistan and Afghanistan, in which the head of the Afghan Railways Department Bakht-ur-Rahman Sharafat arrived in the Turkmen capital on November 30.