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Special representative: NATO attaches great importance to Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan Materials 21 May 2012 17:17 (UTC +04:00)
A Turkmen official delegation will take part in a NATO meeting in Chicago, an official Turkmen source said today.
Special representative: NATO attaches great importance to Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan, Ashgabat, May 21 / Trend H. Hasanov /

A Turkmen official delegation will take part in a NATO meeting in Chicago, an official Turkmen source said today.

Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov received NATO Secretary General's Special Representative for the Central Asia and Caucasus James Appathurai in Ashgabat in June 2011. He stressed that NATO attaches great importance to the cooperation with Turkmenistanr.

The parties stressed their intention to continue the traditional cooperation, successfully developing within the NATO program Partnership for Peace.

Appathurai said NATO appreciates the effective assistance and support rendered by Turkmenistan in the restoration of social and economic infrastructure of neighboring Afghanistan.

A number of initiatives of the Turkmen side, including the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India construction project (TAPI) are an example.

Moreover, a meeting was held in Ashgabat about a month ago to prepare for an international conference on Afghanistan, scheduled for June 14, 2012 in Kabul, at the level of foreign ministers of the concerned countries.

The delegations from 15 countries and 14 observer countries, including the delegations from Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Great Britain, Germany, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, China, UAE, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, the U.S, Tajikistan, Turkey, Uzbekistan, France, Japan and the delegation of 10 international and regional organizations, including the UN, EU, NATO,
OSCE and others attended the meeting.

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