On April 17, 2018 a business forum took place in the National Tourist Zone "Avaza", in which representatives of state structures, industrial and business circles, cultural figures of the Balkan velayat of Turkmenistan and Mangistau region of the Republic of Kazakhstan took part. The agenda of the forum included issues of further expansion of trade, economic, scientific, technical, cultural and humanitarian cooperation.
To participate in the forum, organized in the framework of the implementation of the relevant agreement signed in 2014 between the administrations of the Caspian regions of the two states, a representative delegation headed by akim of Mangistau region E.Tugzhanov, has arrived in the city of Turkmenbashi.
It included managers and leading specialists of various departments and divisions - industrial and innovative development, state revenues, entrepreneurship and trade, tourism, physical culture and sports, culture, the head of administrations of the city of Aktau and the Karakiyansky district, as well as deputies of the regional maslikhat, representatives of more than 30 large enterprises and companies, business structures and mass media.
During the meeting, Kazakhstan partners were presented the prospects of the rapidly developing market of Turkmenistan, which has rich natural resources and huge economic potential, as well as large-scale projects, including in the field of industrialization, import substitution and increasing the production of products in demand with the world markets.
Kazakhstan businessmen, presenting their companies, underscored their readiness for active participation in joint projects of national and regional importance, favorable conditions for which creates complementarities of the economies of the Balkan velayat and Mangistau region.
The achievements of the commodity producers of Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan were visually demonstrated by the joint exhibition, in the exposition of which the products of private and state construction, agro-processing, sewing, confectionery and other enterprises were presented.
More specific discussions of interesting joint projects and further areas of cooperation were held during bilateral meetings between the guests and the representatives of the Turkmenbashi city, ministries and departments, entrepreneurs of Turkmenistan.
Thanking the Turkmen side for the warm welcome and excellent organization of the business meeting, the members of the Kazakh delegation expressed confidence that the agreements reached will serve to deepen and strengthen the constructive interstate dialogue.
In the evening, a large concert of folklore groups, entertainers, performers of folk music and songs of Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan was held in the cultural and sports complex of the oil refinery. An exhibition of folk-applied art of the peoples of two friendly countries was organized here.
