Turkmenistan, Ashgabat, August 24 / Trend , G.Hasanov /
President of Turkmenistan Gurbangulu Berdimuhamedov approved the Turkmen side of the composition of Turkmen-Kazakh inter-governmental commission on economic, scientific-technical and cultural cooperation.
Two neighboring states are connected by several large-scale economic projects in the sphere of energy and transport. Through Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan is building a gas pipeline to China with a design capacity of up to 40 billion cubic meters of gas per year. Kazakhstan also has an agreement with Turkmenistan and Russia on the construction of the Trans-Caspian gas pipeline.
In addition, currently the construction of Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran railway is actively carried out, which will significantly facilitate the access of the CIS countries to the Persian Gulf.
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev is supposed to pay an official visit to Turkmenistan in mid September. At this time, the final stage of the rally "Silk Road - a series of Dakar" passing through the territory of Russia, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan starts.
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