(MENAFN- AzerNews) Tajikistan and Turkmenistan considered prospects for further
strategic partnership including the schedule of upcoming high-level
meetings.
This was discussed between Minister of Foreign Affairs of
Tajikistan Sirojiddin Muhriddin with his Turkmen counterpart Rashid
Meredov on the sidelines of the Council of Ministers of Foreign
Affairs of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO), held in
Uzbekistan's capital Tashkent on January 24.
The meeting was attended by the heads of the foreign ministries
of Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan,
Türkiye, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, heads of regional
organizations and affiliated bodies of the ECO.
During the meeting, a wide range of issues of enhancing regional
cooperation in the areas of trade, investment, green economy,
digitalization, energy, food security, ecology, agriculture and
transport were discussed.
The Council of Ministers (COM) is the highest policy and
decision-making body of the ECO. It comprises the Ministers of
Foreign Affairs of the Member States who meet in regular, informal
and extraordinary sessions.
As part of the meeting, the Council approved the work program
and calendar of events of the ECO for 2023, reports on the
activities of the Secretariat and specialized bodies of the ECO
were adopted, recommendations were developed on the project
activities of the Organization, the budget for 2023 was approved,
and the results of the chairmanship of Uzbekistan in the ECO were
summed up.
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