The National Leader of the Turkmen people, Chairman of the Halk Maslahaty of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, who is on a working visit to Berlin, took part in the meeting of heads of delegations in the «Central Asia + Germany» format.

The meeting, held in the format of a business breakfast, which is known to be a widespread form of negotiations in the world, chaired by the Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany, was also attended by the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the President of the Kyrgyz Republic Sadyr Japarov, the President of the Republic of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon, President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev.

At the beginning of his speech, Hero-Arkadag warmly welcomed the heads of delegations of the Central Asian countries and expressed gratitude to the head of the Federal Republic of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, for organizing such a significant event, designed to make an important contribution to the expansion of mutually beneficial partnership between the states of Central Asia and Germany.

As noted, Turkmenistan welcomes the initiative to create a new multilateral format and is ready to expand partnership in all areas of common interest.

Today, the countries of Central Asia intend to further develop interaction aimed at creating conditions in the region to ensure the well-being of the peoples of our countries. In this context, it was emphasized that among modern problems the most pressing are issues of security, socio-economic development, ecology and humanization of international relations.

Touching upon the issue of economic development, the National Leader of the Turkmen people, first of all, noted the global interconnectedness of this process. Today, the system of world economic relations implies not only the integration of the economies of different countries, but also the coherence of the work of many of its components.

These included traditional areas: energy, transport and the financial sector, as well as new modern segments of the economy, such as digitalization, artificial intelligence and green technologies.

Also during the high-level meeting, an exchange of views took place on the development of cooperation in the environmental, cultural and humanitarian spheres.