Turkmen Deputy Prime Minister Raşit Meredow, who is also Foreign Minister of Turkmenistan, heading Turkmen government delegation will arrive in Dushanbe on July 13 on a two-day working visit, a source in the Tajik government told Asia-Plus in an interview.
While in Dushanbe, Meredow is scheduled to hold talks with high-ranking Tajik state officials to discuss state and prospects of further expansion of bilateral cooperation between Turkmenistan and Tajikistan.
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon is expected to receive visiting Turkmen Deputy Prime Minister.
Diplomatic relations between Tajikistan and Turkmenistan were established on January 27, 1992.
In 2016, the bilateral trade between Tajikistan and Turkmenistan amounted to 93.5 million U.S. dollars.
Raşit Meredow (born 1960) is a Turkmen politician and diplomat who has served in the Government of Turkmenistan as Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2001, as well as Deputy Prime Minister since 2007.
Born in a lawyer's family, Meredow studied at Moscow State University in the Faculty of Law. He made a diplomatic career in the independent Turkmenistan. In 2007, shortly after President Saparmurat Niyazov's death, he was appointed as Deputy Prime Minister responsible for the police and army.
