DUSHANBE, December 5, Asia-Plus — Tajik President Emomali Rahmon is scheduled to pay a visit to Turkmenistan on December 9-10, Tajik MFA said.
During his two-day visit President Rahmon will hold talks with his Turkmen counterpart, President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov. President Rahmon’s visit to Turkmenistan is expected to result in signing of a series of bilateral agreements.
The source at the Ministry of Transport and Communications (MoTC), in particular, told Asia-Plus that agreements on aerial communication between Tajikistan and Turkmenistan and international automotive transport communication were expected to be signed in Ashgabat.
During his stay in Ashgabat President Rahmon will also attend an official opening of the Center for Preventive Diplomacy.
We will recall that Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov paid an official visit to Tajikistan in early October this year. Rahmon and Berdymukhammedov that time endorsed a new five-year agreement reached in talks between the energy ministers of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan on the supply and transit of Turkmen electricity through Uzbekistan to Tajikistan during winter months.
Turkmen president’s visit to Tajikistan ended with signing of six bilateral cooperation documents, including an agreement on friendship and cooperation, as well as government-to-government agreements on main principles of trade-economic and scientific-technical cooperation, cooperation in the filed of culture and art, education cooperation, mutual protection of investments, and agriculture cooperation.
