Romanian-Turkmen economic and commercial relations can register superior results

The Romanian-Turkmen economic and commercial relationships can register superior results, having the potential to capitalise on the business opportunities though concrete actions, Romanian Minister for Business, Trade and Entrepreneurship Stefan Radu Oprea and Turkmenistan's Finance and Economy Minister Batyr Bazarov agreed on Monday in Ashgabat.

According to a release of the Business, Trade and Entrepreneurship Ministry, Stefan Radu Oprea and Minister Bazarov chaired the workings of the 7th session of the Romanian-Turkmen inter-governmental economic and technical-scientific cooperation committee, within which measures with immediate implementation for the development of bilateral relations, both at governmental level and between the Romanian and Turkmen business environments have been adopted.

Among these, there are also the demarches to encourage and support an active involvement of the Romanian and Turkmen companies in bilateral projects of major interest in the energy, infrastructure, transport, IT and agriculture areas.

"The workings of the Romanian-Turkmen inter-governmental economic and technical-scientific cooperation committee session concluded through the signing by its co-chairs, namely Ministers Oprea and Bazarov, of the Protocol which establishes the main future collaboration directions, but also the Memorandum of understanding between Romania's Business, Trade and Entrepreneurship Ministry and Turkmenistan's Finance and Economy Ministry regarding the collaboration in the economic area," the release informs.

The Romanian Business Minister carried out a series of meetings with members of the Turkmen Government and business milieu, among which deputy-head of the Cabinet of Ministers Gochmyrat Myradov, Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Vepa Hajiyev and chairman of the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Turkmenistan Alexander Dadaev.

"Romanian and Turkmenistan have a special relationship with strategic valences, built on the platform of a cooperation in the energy area. Its geostrategic position, in the proximity of East-West and North-South transport corridors, gives Turkmenistan the opportunity to become an important actor in expanding the freight routes between Asia and Europe, and Romania, in its turn, has concrete interests regarding its participation in it," the quoted source underscored.

Turkmenistan is currently the second economic and commercial partner of Romania in Central Asia. AGERPRES (RO - editor: Andreea Marinescu; EN - author: Rodica State, editor: Adina Panaitescu)