Armenia and Turkmenistan sign agreements

[Bengal_Tiger]

Armenia and Turkmenistan to intensify bilateral ties


YEREVAN, April 8. / ARKA /. Armenia and Turkmenistan have agreed to intensify bilateral cooperation in various fields, the press service of the Armenian president said today following a meeting in the Turkmen capital city between visiting Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan and his Turkmen counterpart Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov.

A joint statement, signed after the highest level Armenian- Turkmen talks says that the parties reached accord on a wide range of issues.

It says the presidents of the two countries were unanimous that since the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1992 their bilateral cooperation has made considerable success. The presidents have expressed satisfaction with the current level of bilateral relations and pledged to develop them further.
The sides also have expressed satisfaction with the level of their cooperation in the international organizations and emphasized the need to intensify efforts in the framework of those regional organizations, which include both countries.

“The Heads of State noted the need to further deepen political dialogue, trade, economic, scientific - technical, cultural and humanitarian ties and cooperation in other areas. The Presidents have also stressed the importance of the activities of the joint intergovernmental commission on economic cooperation, especially in respect to business cooperation in promising areas, and also have emphasized the need to intensify its activities,” the statement said.

The presidents have also agreed to hold the Days of Culture of Turkmenistan in Armenia in 2015.
Sargsyan was said to have thanked his Turkmen counterpart for the warm welcome and invited president Berdymukhamedov to visit Armenia at a convenient time.

In Turkmenistan the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of the two countries have signed a cooperation agreement. Cooperation agreements have been signed also by the Armenian State Institute of Physical Culture and the National Institute of Sports and Tourism of Turkmenistan, by the capital cities Yerevan and Ashgabat.

The Civil Aviation Departments of both countries have signed a memorandum of understanding to resume direct flights between the two countries. The foreign ministries of the two countries have signed a cooperation agreement for 2014-2015. Also the two countries have signed an agreement on establishment of trade offices in each country.

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* The Armenian president went to Turkmenistan's capital Ashgabat.

The mayors of Ashgabat and Yerevan the two capital cities of the countries have signed a co-operation deal.

Turkmenistan has tension with Azerbaijan and there was even talk of some sort of military conflict between the two.

http://abc.az/eng/news/main/65837.html

http://www.diplomaticourier.com/news/regions/central-asia/382-caspian-tensions-reveal-turkmenistan-s-rising-confidence

However this was resolved.

Though the Armenian president's trip to Ashgabat won't be seen warmly by most in Baku.



Armenian president in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.

















Ashgabat, capital of Turkmenistan. Turkmenistan is said by some to be aiming to be a central Asian Qatar i.e. a wealthy resource rich state with lots of influence.

[Tjanaparh]

Dear Bengali tiger, I suppose the relations of both countries were always good. Armenia has normally good relations to Central Asian countries as many gave place for people who were throuwn out of those Armenian populated territories that were included in Soviet Azerbaijan, specially those that didn't have autonomous status (Plain Karabakh, Nakhijevan).
However this perhaps more is concerning simple people.
Unfortunately Turkmen politics have also many bitter notes, and I know that quite well. I really wish them that it change one day.
I am not a too big friend of Berdymukhamedov nor Niyazov, but in foreign issues they were mostly very correct to every country.
By the way in Soviet times the Turkmen cinema was perhaps the best cinema studio, their films for children are really great to watch.

[Bengal_Tiger]

Dear Bengali tiger, I suppose the relations of both countries were always good. Armenia has normally good relations to Central Asian countries as many gave place for people who were throuwn out of those Armenian populated territories that were included in Soviet Azerbaijan, specially those that didn't have autonomous status (Plain Karabakh, Nakhijevan).
However this perhaps more is concerning simple people.
Unfortunately Turkmen politics have also many bitter notes, and I know that quite well. I really wish them that it change one day.
I am not a too big friend of Berdymukhamedov nor Niyazov, but in foreign issues they were mostly very correct to every country.
By the way in Soviet times the Turkmen cinema was perhaps the best cinema studio, their films for children are really great to watch.

1. Turkmenistan generally tries to have good relations with everyone e.g. they were the best neighbour of Taliban-run Afghanistan as they sought to keep good relations with them.


2. They are somewhat different linguistically to the other Turkic races of central Asia.

3. I spoke to a Turkmen who liked Niyazov and said he was a good leader.


The fact that Turkmenistan was willing to talk of conflict with Azerbaijan, that Kirghiz and Uzbeks have fought each other in the past and other things just shows how little Central Asian Turks care about "pan-Turkism", an idea mainly promoted by Turkey, which either intentionally or unintentionally tends to promote the power of "big brother" Turkey.