On March 1, President Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov is going on a working visit to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, whose capital, the city of Islamabad, is to host the 13th Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) Summit. At the government meeting on February 28, the head of state highlighted that the development of constructive partnership with authoritative regional and international organizations, including the ECO, is one of the priorities of the newly adopted Foreign Policy Conception of Turkmenistan for 2017-2023. Taking an active position on the issues of regional security, in recent years Turkmenistan has initiated and has been successfully implementing jointly with partner countries a number of large-scale and enormously important international projects in the fuel and energy and transport-communications sectors. Among them are the Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran railway project, which has considerably shortened the distance from European countries to port cities in the Persian Gulf, and the transnational Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project, which envisages long-term Turkmen natural gas supplies to new prospective markets. The nation’s leader Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov will also hold a number of bilateral meetings with the heads of the ECO member countries on the sidelines of the ECO Summit. Turkmenistan has been a member country of the Economic Cooperation Organization since 1992.