Tajikistan’s Ambassador to Turkey Ashraf Gulov met with Turkish Minister of Trade Mehmet Muş in Ankara on December 11 to discuss cooperation, according to the Tajik Embassy in Ankara.
During the meeting, the two reportedly exchanged views on state and prospects of further expansion of trade and economic cooperation between Tajikistan and Turkey.
They also discussed activities of the Tajikistan-Turkey intergovernmental commission for trade and economic cooperation.
The parties reportedly agreed to follow the agreements previously reached by the highest leaderships of the two countries on diversification and increasing the bilateral trade between Tajikistan and Turkey to 1 billion U.S. dollars.
Gulov and Muş also discussed issues related to developing the Tajikistan-Turkey bilateral trade facilitation roadmap designed for 2022-2025, the Embassy says.
Besides, the two reportedly discussed the state and further steps to implement the items of the Joint Plan of Actions of 11th session of the Tajikistan-Turkey intergovernmental commission for trade and economic cooperation.
They also touched up issues of further expansion of the bilateral cooperation in the fields of banking sector, investment, agriculture, transportation, construction and architecture, tourism, environmental protection, civil aviation, public health, education, science, culture, labor and social care, standardization, sports and youth policy.
The Ministry of Trade of Turkey is responsible for customs and trade related affairs in Turkey. The ministry was founded with the Act No. 640 by merging the Prime Ministry's Undersecretariate of Customs with some departments of the former Ministry of Industry and Trade on June 8, 2011. In the past, duties of the current ministry were carried out by the Ministry of Customs and Monopoly (1931–1983), Ministry of Finance and Customs (1983–1991) and Undersecretariate of Customs (1993–2011).
