As part of the Seventh Regional Economic Conference on Afghanistan (RECCA VII) Ashgabat has hosted a business forum, which served as a meeting ground for representatives of state-run institutions and business communities from a number of countries of the region, authoritative international organizations, and the media.

Past week at the auctions of the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan 62 transactions were registered.

Delegation of Turkmenistan was in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with a working visit. Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers, M.Babayev, presented his report on the results of the visit at the Government session.

Outcomes of the mission of International Monetary Fund was reported during the session of the Cabinet of Ministers on November 10 of this year. The Fund gave high remark to the development of national economy what became another evidence of the efficiency of the Government course of President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov.

Power engineers from Turkmenistan are working on increasing power supply to Afghanistan.

Specific directions of the intensification of the production, industrialization of national economy for the improvement of its profitability and export capabilities are defined in adopted programme of the President of Turkmenistan on social and economic development of the country in 2018 – 2024. The Head of the State notes that special role belongs to Balkan velayat where the projects in petroleum and chemical industry based on modern technologies of the processing of natural resources, increase of the production of oil products, which are on high demand in the market, are carried out these days.

Past week at the auctions of the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan 38 transactions were registered.

The 22nd International Conference and Exhibition “Oil and Gas of Turkmenistan-2017” (OGT-2017) has been opened in an Exhibition Center of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The forum was organized by the State Concern “Turkmennebit” and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the country.

The agenda of interstate cooperation includes realization of projects in energy sphere and Turkmenistan is willing to review in details existing capabilities. New energy facilities built in Lebap and Mary Velayats allow increasing several times the volumes of energy supplied toward Afghanistan and if Tajik side would express the interest to supply the energy via Afghanistan to Tajikistan during autumn and winter period, Turkmen leader noted.

The transport sphere today ranks among the priority areas of the Turkmen-Tajik cooperation. As is known, the construction of the Asian international railway corridor – Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Tajikistan has been launched in accordance with the top-level agreements achieved in March, 2013.