The presidents of Iran and Turkmenistan have underlined the need to strengthen border cooperation and facilitate exchange of goods. Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi and Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow also stressed the necessity of increasing trade cooperation in order to boost bilateral relations.
Iran’s President Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi has said cooperation with neighboring and regional countries is one of the priorities of Tehran’s foreign policy.
An Iranian official says the export of goods by truck from the city of Sarakhs bordering Turkmenistan to the neighboring country has tripled compared to the previous week.
The Iranian president, in a meeting with the visiting Turkmen foreign minister in Tehran, said the formation of an inclusive government in Afghanistan will lead to the regional peace and stability.
Iranian Minister of Roads and Urban Development Rostam Ghassemi says Iran and Turkmenistan have agreed to improve relations in the fields of transport, energy and trade.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has, on the last leg of his tour of Central Asia, met with Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow in Ashgabat.
President Hassan Rouhani has expressed confidence that Tehran’s relations with Ashgabat would continue to grow in various fields considering the two neighbours’ commonalities.
An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale has struck the city of Maraveh-Tappeh in the northern Iranian province of Golestan, near the country’s border with Turkmenistan.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has expressed Tehran’s preparedness to transfer its experiences and help Ashgabat combat the outbreak of the novel coronavirus.
An Iranian official says the country is not supposed to pay any damages to Turkmenistan because of overdue payments for the latter’s natural gas exports to the Islamic Republic.
Environmental officials from the five Caspian Sea littoral states have attended an online meeting on the ways to protect and preserve the marine environment at the world’s largest lake.
Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Diplomacy says following negotiations between Tehran and Ashgabat, the Iran-Turkmenistan border will probably reopen in the next 10 to 20 days.
The deputy foreign ministers of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Republic of Turkmenistan held a fresh round of political consultations via video conference on Tuesday.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has held separate phone conversations with his counterparts from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Turkmenistan.
The presidents of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Republic of Turkmenistan have stressed the need to normalize the trade interaction between the two neighbors in conformity with the health regulations, calling for mutual cooperation in the fight against the coronavirus.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has held separate phone conversations with a number of officials and top diplomats from across the world on the recent developments following the US assassination of General Qassem Soleimani.
