President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov on Wednesday received Vice President of Turkey Cevdet Yılmaz, co-chairman of the Intergovernmental Turkmen-Turkish Commission on Economic Cooperation, who arrived in Turkmenistan at the head of his country’s delegation to participate in the next, seventh meeting of this Commission, TDH reports.

 The guest conveyed warm words of greetings from the President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the head of state, as well as the Chairman of the Halk Maslakhaty Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov.  As emphasized, Turkey attaches great importance to strengthening relations with brotherly Turkmenistan, based on the principles of mutually beneficial partnership.

 Having conveyed warm greetings to his Turkish counterpart, the head of Turkmenistan emphasized that the development of strategic and long-term cooperation with Turkey is one of the priority areas of the foreign policy of the Turkmen state.

 Having highly assessed the achieved degree of trust and mutual understanding between the top leadership of the two fraternal states, the interlocutors emphasized that regular visits of government delegations, consultations and negotiations contribute to the expansion of multi-vector cooperation.

 In this context, Serdar Berdimuhamedov noted that he remembers with particular warmth the meeting with Recep Erdogan, the business forum and bilateral negotiations that took place during the recent official visit to the Republic of Turkey, during which a number of documents were signed.  In this regard, it was emphasized that the important task of today is the implementation of the agreements reached.

 Turkey is one of the strategic trade and economic partners of Turkmenistan.  In this regard, it was noted that wide opportunities are opening up for building up effective bilateral and regional cooperation in the fuel and energy complex, in the fields of transport and communications, agriculture and investment.

 In this context, the head of Turkmenistan emphasized that, given the solid economic potential of the two countries, it is necessary to intensify work to bring interstate cooperation to a qualitatively new level.  At the same time, the importance of the work of the joint intergovernmental commission and business forum, designed to help build up the partnership and determine its current directions, was noted.