ASHGABAT: Turkmenistan and Germany discussed priority areas for further cooperation, Trend reports.
According to the Turkmen Foreign Ministry, this topic was discussed during a meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, Rashid Meredov, and the newly appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Germany in Ashgabat, Bernd Heinze, who presented copies of his credentials.
During the meeting, the parties noted that effective interstate cooperation has now been established in the political, diplomatic, trade, economic, and social spheres.
They stressed that cooperation between the countries is currently developing successfully both in a bilateral format and within the framework of the Central Asia – Germany dialogue.
At the same time, according to the mutual opinion of the parties, another priority vector of bilateral relations was partnership in the trade and economic sphere, where in this context effective cooperation with the Eastern Committee of the German Economy was emphasi
zed.
Meanwhile, Germany actively supports initiatives to strengthen economic ties with the Central Asian states through financing projects on infrastructure modernization, trade, investment, energy, transport, and ecology.
The trade turnover between Turkmenistan and Germany exceeded 1.1 billion euros from the beginning of 2018 through the end of 2023.
Source: Trend News Agency