Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, Mar. 28
By Huseyn Hasanov – Trend:
Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and Slovenia’s Foreign Minister Karl Viktor Erjavec discussed the two countries’ cooperation, the Turkmen government said in a message.
Importance of intergovernmental agreements and other normative legal documents, signed during the Turkmen president’s official visit to Slovenia in May 2015, was noted during the meeting.
Ashgabat also hosted a meeting of the joint intergovernmental commission on trade and economic cooperation, during which the Slovenian companies expressed intention to expand their participation in Turkmen market.
Trade, telecommunications, transportation, air communication, freight traffic, agriculture and food industry are among priority areas of partnership between Turkmenistan and Slovenia.
Turkmenistan, which ranks the fourth in the world for its big gas reserves, is studying the possibility of exporting its hydrocarbons to the European market. To this end, a project is being developed to lay the Trans-Caspian pipeline to the shores of Azerbaijan, from where the Turkmen gas can be delivered to Turkey and further to Europe.
Negotiations on the project are underway between the EU, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan since 2011.
In late July 2014, during the visit of Slovenian President Borut Pahor to Ashgabat, the two sides expressed readiness to cooperate in ensuring global energy security.