OREANDA-NEWS. September 30, 2009. The second meeting of the Turkmen-Belarusian intergovernmental commission for economic cooperation took place in the Turkmen capital. The official delegation led by Vice Prime Minister of the Republic of Belarus V. P. Burya – Co-Chairman of the intergovernmental commission had arrived in Ashgabat to take part in the meeting. Turkmenistan was represented by Vice Premier H. Saparlyev, the high-ranking officials and specialists of the national ministries and departments.

This meeting provided an opportunity to have a substantial talk and consider the agreements reached by the leaders of two states Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and Aleksander Lukashenko during the top level talks. Moreover, the members of the commission had had a series of the meetings with the Government of Turkmenistan and specified the parameters of very promising partnership.

During the meeting that turned into the businesslike constructive exchange of views from the first minutes the participants considered the results of the work done since the first meeting of the intergovernmental commission, which had taken place last January in Minsk as well as the ways to intensify mutually advantageous cooperation in the whole spectrum of fields.

Focusing with satisfaction on increasingly mutual interest in expanding traditional contacts based firmly on age-old friendship the participants spotlighted a number of the key vectors of further collaboration. In particular, the members of the official delegations expressed the willingness to diversify mutually trade and economic, scientific and technical cooperation and develop partnership in petrochemical and textile industries, agriculture, machine building, construction, production of construction materials and mineral fertilizers, the spheres of science, culture, education and high technologies.

The topic of thorough discussion was cooperation in tourism industry as one of the very promising sector of Turkmen economy for the large-scale project on creation of Avaza national tourism zone on the Caspian Sea coast.

In conclusion the partners stated that in the near future they would launch the designated programmes to foster social and economic development of both countries and signed the bilateral protocol. The participants expressed belief that the Ashgabat meeting would be an effective step to strengthen and diversify mutually advantageous cooperation that had been filled with a new content on the current stage of the intergovernmental dialogue.