On the 13th of May, a telephone conversation was held between the Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov and the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Co-chairman of the Russian side of the Intergovernmental Turkmen-Russian Commission for Economic Cooperation Alexei Overchuk.
During the talk, the parties discussed the implementation of agreements attained in the result of the telephone conversation of the Presidents of Turkmenistan and Russia on May 12 of current year, as well as exchanged congratulations on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War.
The parties discussed the prospective issues of intensifying cooperation in the framework of the Intergovernmental Turkmen-Russian Commission for Economic Cooperation taking into consideration previously determined vectors of widening bilateral trade-economic ties. The subjects concerning close collaboration on combatting the spread of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic were also considered.
