Today, President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov received Director General of Bouygues Group Martin Bouygues.

Having expressed his gratitude for the given time to meet, the head of the famous French company sincerely congratulated the head of Turkmenistan with his election to the highest state post and the upcoming national holiday, the 31^st anniversary of independence of the country, wishing the Turkmen people happiness, wellbeing and further prosperity.

Having thanked him for participation in festive events and good wishes, the President of the country noted that Turkmenistan is always open for mutually beneficial partnership with leading foreign companies specialized in different sectors. With these views, the country creates favourable investment climate and conditions necessary for their fruitful activity.

Having touched on issues of long-term cooperation established on the basis of trust and mutual benefit, President Serdar Berdimuhamedov noted a great contribution of Bouygues in implementation of the large-scale city planning program. Within its framework, jointly with foreign partners for years of independence all over the county tens of important industrial, social and cultural projects have been built and they have become inseparable symbols of modern Turkmenistan. And white marble coated Ashgabat, thanks to its unique beauty and original architecture, has turned into a pearl of Central Asia.

President Serdar Berdimuhamedov underlined that Bouygues has demonstrated itself well with the high quality of its projects and timely and responsibly fulfilment of its obligations.

As an example of contribution of the company in transformation of the view of the Turkmen capital, the work on construction of the modern business centre with all conditions for holding talks and presentation of different projects was cited.

In his turn, the businessman noted that his company took an active part in world scale projects initiated by Arkadag and expressed his gratitude for valuable advice and admonishments for their realization. The interest of Bouygues in further strengthening of its position in the promising Turkmen market, where the company started to work as one of the first yet at the dawn of independence, was confirmed. Martin Bouygues underlined that his company will further strictly follow its contractual obligations, making all-out efforts for implementation of entrusted projects according to wishes of the customer.

Having pointed out that taking into account the gained positive experience, there are good prospects for long-term constructive cooperation, President Serdar Berdimuhamedov marked readiness of the Turkmen side for consideration of concrete proposals of the company.

Once again having expressed his gratitude for the opportunity for the personal meeting to discuss future areas of mutually beneficial partnership, the Director General of Bouygues wished successes in achievement of high goals of the Era of Revival of the New Epoch of the Powerful State.