Deputies of the Senate (upper house) of the Parliament of Kazakhstan on Thursday ratified an intergovernmental agreement with Turkmenistan on cooperation in the field of civil defense, prevention and liquidation of emergency situations, RIA Novosti reports.
Turkmen President Serdar Berdimuhamedov and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held a bilateral meeting today on the eve of the Turkmenistan-Azerbaijan-Turkey trilateral summit, TDH reports.
Turkmen President Serdar Berdimuhamedov and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev discussed cooperation in the energy sector during a bilateral meeting on the eve of the first Turkmen-Azerbaijani-Turkish summit in Avaza, TDH reports.
Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan and Turkey are aimed at developing a mechanism for issuing visas to improve the activities of road carriers. This initiative was discussed during a meeting of the heads of transport departments of the three countries on the eve of the summit of the heads of state in Avaza, TDH reports.
President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov congratulated oil, gas and geologists on their professional holiday — the Day of Oil and Gas Industry and Geology Workers. Congratulations were published today by the official Turkmen press.
Meetings of the heads of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, energy and transport departments of Turkmenistan, Turkey and Azerbaijan were held in the Avaza tourist zone on the Turkmen coast of the Caspian Sea on the eve of the first trilateral summit. The participants of the negotiations told about this on social networks.
Baku is ready to build mutually beneficial cooperation with Yerevan and has already handed over to Armenia the updated text of the agreement on relations between the two countries. This was stated by Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov during a meeting with the Foreign Ministers of Turkmenistan and Turkey in Avaza, TASS reports.
The meeting of foreign ministers in the "Central Asia + Japan" format will be held in Tokyo on December 24. It will be the ninth in a row and will be held at the Iikura House under the chairmanship of Japanese Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa. This was reported in a press release from the Japanese Foreign Ministry.
The fifth meeting of the High Level Working Group on the Caspian Sea (HLWG) was held in Moscow on 13-15 December. The negotiations were attended by delegations from Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation and Turkmenistan, represented by the director of the Caspian Sea Institute Murat Atajanov.
The Deputy Ministers of Health of Turkmenistan and Russia held talks in Moscow on Thursday and discussed prospects for further cooperation between the countries. Murat Mammadov and Tatiana Semenova showed particular interest in such areas as continuing medical education, medical tourism and digital transformation of healthcare," reads a press release published on the official website of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said that Turkey has the ability to supply Russian and Turkmen gas to Europe, this is an important step for Ankara. This is reported by RIA Novosti.
Turkmenistan and Iran have agreed to further expand intergovernmental contacts, as well as to search for ways to develop cooperation in the oil and gas sector, the electric power industry, water environment and ecology.
At the ceremony held at the Avaza Congress Center, in the presence of President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov, President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan and President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, there were signed the agreements on trade, science, education, culture, customs, energy and transport between the three countries.
“The Avaza Summit is the most recent and concrete example of our efforts. Energy, transport and commercial issues will be the main items on the agenda of our summit. On this occasion, we will also sign various agreements to strengthen the contractual basis of our relations,” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said at a press conference on Tuesday ahead of the Turkey-Azerbaijan-Turkmenistan summit.
The V Central Asian Expert Forum was held in Ashgabat on Saturday, bringing together the heads and leading specialists of the centers for strategic studies of five countries of the region and not only.
