(AGENPARL) - Roma, 30 Giugno 2022(AGENPARL) – MOSCOW gio 30 giugno 2022
President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Good evening.
Please go ahead. How did you like Ashgabat? The weather is hot, though. But the city has completely transformed in the past
years, with new architecture. It is so beautiful.
Question: Mr President. It has been a while since your last
visit to Turkmenistan. Today you have arrived in our country to attend the 6th
Caspian Summit. Also today, you have met with the President of Turkmenistan and Chair of the Halk Maslahaty of the Milli Gengesh [the upper chamber of parliament]
of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, who turns 65 today. You offered
birthday greetings to your former colleague.
Therefore, my question is: what significance you
attach to this visit to Turkmenistan, and, in your opinion, what are the prospects
of further partnership between the Caspian littoral states following the 6th
Caspian Summit here in Ashgabat.
Thank you.
Vladimir Putin: I have already said it and want to say it
again: congratulations to Turkmenistan and the people of Turkmenistan on such a good choice. Your new President is a young and energetic man with brilliant education
and experience in public administration. We are forming a good relationship. He
is taking over from his predecessor and father. We had a very informative and good
conversation during his visit to Moscow. We outlined a plan of specific actions
to develop our bilateral relations and we are starting to implement it.
As concerns your previous leader, Mr Gurbanguly
Berdimuhamedov, we have established a very good and friendly relationship over the years. In many respects it was thanks to his efforts that a framework was created
for developing Russia-Turkmenistan relations, and that our cooperation continues,
both between our energy companies and in humanitarian affairs, in education and transport. It is very important as logistics in the modern world are essential to economic success.
I must say that, after the official part, he invited
us to an informal lunch, where we had a chance to offer our birthday greetings,
but perhaps 90 percent of the time was dedicated to an informal and open conversation
about the development of cooperation in the Caspian region. You know which areas
were in our focus. There were many ideas and proposals expressed. I do not want
to reveal everything as they must first be formalised in corresponding multilateral
and bilateral documents.
To be continued.
Fonte/Source: http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/68783
