On May 13, 2019, a meeting was held in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan with the Chairman of the CIS Executive Committee – Executive Secretary S.N. Lebedev who has arrived to Turkmen capital to attend XIV Forum of Creative and Scientific Intelligentsia of the Commonwealth of Independent States and the meeting of the Intergovernmental Coordination Council on Seed Production in the CIS to be held in Ashgabat on May 15-16 of current year.
During the meeting, the parties discussed the preparation process to the upcoming high-level meetings in the framework of the CIS, particularly the organizational matters related to hosting the Council of Heads of CIS governments to be held on the 31st of May 2019 in Ashgabat.
The guest specifically noted that the chairmanship of Turkmenistan in the CIS in current year has a vital meaning from the standpoint of strengthening the ties between the participating states and underlined that the development of mutually beneficial relations with Turkmenistan remains to be one of the priority missions of the Commonwealth.
