(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 30. Chairman of the
lower house of the Turkmen parliament Gulshat Mammedova held a
meeting with Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation
Vyacheslav Volodin during his visit to Ashgabat on January 29
through 30, trend reports with reference to the Turkmen media.
During the meeting, Gulshat Mammedova invited deputies of the
State Duma of Russia to Ashgabat as observers at the upcoming
parliamentary elections in Turkmenistan. In turn, Vyacheslav
Volodin confirmed that the State Duma will send its
representatives.
According to the Chairman of the State Duma, at the moment,
after a long break, it is important for both countries to enter new
formats of cooperation that will be as effective as possible to
solve the tasks facing Turkmenistan and Russia.
He added that today, within the framework of the parliamentary
dimension between the two countries, it is important to develop
cooperation through specialized committees.
At the last parliamentary elections held in Turkmenistan in
2018, 284 candidates contested 125 seats. Thus, 168 of them were
nominated from three political parties – the Democratic Party, the
Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs and the Agrarian Party.
The remaining 116 candidates ran from citizen groups.
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