OREANDA-NEWS. February 01, 2011. A high-level delegation of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan led by Acting Minister of Higher Education Ghulam Sarwar Danesh is on a visit to the Turkmen capital these days.

The guests were received at the Ministry of Education, where a thorough exchange of views on the prospects for further Turkmen-Afghan cooperation and the ways to promote the intergovernmental agreements in the education sector took place.

The focus of the interdepartmental meetings was the priority areas of cooperation including training specialists for the national economy and social sector of the neighbouring country, advanced training courses for Afghan specialists at the Turkmen institutions of high education, exchange of experiences, provision of scientific, educational and methodical literature, establishment of closer interuniversity contacts. The members of the Afghan delegation expressed particular interest in opening the departments of the Turkmen language and literature at the Faryab Higher Education Institute and the Jawzjan University in Afghanistan.

The guests visited Magtumguly Turkmen State University, where the discussion of the approaches to establishing partnership between higher educational institutions of the two countries was continued during the conversations with the teaching staff.

During the meetings the guests expressed sincere gratitude to President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov for pursuing the policy of Turkmen-Afghan cooperation based on good neighbourliness and mutual assistance and promoting important projects that contributed to the social, economic and cultural revival of Afghanistan.

In this aspect emphasis was put on the critical significance of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project, which would be a significant contribution to stable and sustainable development throughout the region and become a key factor for building peace in Afghanistan. The partners expressed belief that fruitful cooperation, which had been offered new incentives and filled with a new content in recent years, would be continued.

The meetings of the delegation of the delegation of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan is planning with scientists of the Academy of Sciences of Turkmenistan are scheduled.