OREANDA-NEWS. January 03, 2011. A high-level delegation of the Islamic Republic of Iran led by Deputy Minister of Oil, Managing Director of the National Iranian Gas Company Javad Owji was on a visit to the Turkmen capital.

The priority fields and prospects for traditional Turkmen-Iranian cooperation successfully built on good neighbourliness and mutually beneficial partnership were a focus of the meeting at the Government of Turkmenistan and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Underlying particularly the huge potential of effective collaboration in the energy sector as mostly illustrating enhancement of the large-scale interstate dialogue, the meeting participants focused on the mutual readiness to intensify further cooperation in this sector.

Highly evaluating the positive dynamics of bilateral cooperation between Turkmenistan and Iran, Mr. Javad Owji emphasized that Iran intended to intensify fruitful partnership based on traditional friendship between the two neighbouring nations.