On Friday July 14, Tajik President Emomali Rahmon received visiting Turkmen Deputy Prime Minister Raşit Meredow, who is also Foreign Minister of Turkmenistan.
According to the Tajik president’s official website, the two sides discussed state and prospects of further expansion of bilateral cooperation between Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.
Tajik leader, in particular, noted that cooperation between Tajikistan and Turkmenistan was established at the proper level and both sides should take efforts and widely use opportunities to promote further expansion of it.
Rahmon and Meredow reportedly pointed to the necessity of intensifying activities of the Tajik-Turkmen joint commission for trade and economic cooperation in order to expand bilateral cooperation between the two countries in the fields of energy, transportation, science, education, and health care.
They agreed that large infrastructure development projects, in which both countries are involved, are one of important factors of sustainable development and successful integration with the Central Asian region
Similar issues were discussed at a meeting of Meredow with Tajik Foreign Minister Sirojiddin Aslov that took place here Friday morning.
The two reportedly signed a program of cooperation between the foreign ministries of Tajikistan and Turkmenistan for the period of 2018-2019.
Raşit Meredow heading Turkmen government delegation arrived in Dushanbe on July 13 on a two-day working visit.
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.
