Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, May 20
By Huseyn Hasanov – Trend:
The Minister of Trade and Foreign Economic Relations of Turkmenistan Amandurdy Ishanow was received in Astana by Kazakhstan’s Prime Minister Askar Mamin, Trend reports referring to the Turkmen Foreign Ministry.
Matters of bilateral relations between states were discussed during the meeting, the report reads.
The Turkmen side invited Mamin to a regular meeting of the CIS Council of Heads of Government on May 31 in Ashgabat.
The meeting was held on the sidelines of the 12th Astana Economic Forum (AEF), which was attended by delegates from 74 countries.
Reports were presented during the event by Chief Economist of the World Bank (WB) Paul Romer, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Christine Lagarde, and others.
Earlier it was reported that a project is being considered for creating a special zone of border trade on the border of Kazakhstan’s Mangystau Region and Turkmenistan’s Balkan Region.
Mangystau and Balkan regions are similar. Oil, gas and chemical industries dominate here. Both regions are big transport and logistics hubs, interconnected by sea, railway routes and motorways. The launch of regular flights is also being considered.
Both countries stress the need for increasing the trade turnover in such industries as metallurgy, mechanical engineering, building materials, food industry, chemical industry, light industry, and pharmaceutics.