Building the bridges of friendship and mutually advantageous co-operation

King of Jordan Abdullah II ibn Al-Hussein will come to Turkmenistan on the official visit on August 24.

The partners attach particular importance to this top level meeting – it is to specify the priority trends in further development of intergovernmental co-operation and to bring it up to higher level meeting the mutual interests.

The ground for such an optimistic forecast of the results of the coming top level talks in the Turkmen capital is conditioned by the good personal relations between the leaders of Turkmenistan and Jordan. Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and King Abdullah II ibn Al-Hussein had the first meeting in Astana during the celebrations of the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the Kazakh capital this July. The leaders of Turkmenistan and Jordan exchanged views on a broad range of the issues of mutual interest. In particular, touching upon the priorities of Turkmenistan’s foreign policy strategy Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov emphasized that fruitful co-operation with the Arab states was an important aspect.

Both leaders highly appreciated the existing potential of partnership and expressed mutual interest in establishing the full-scale intergovernmental dialogue based on the goodwill of both peoples, their spiritual kinship, the centuries-old ties of friendship and fraternity. A crucial factor of successful bilateral co-operation is the complementarity of the Turkmen and Jordanian economies. All of this opens the vast opportunities for establishing effective business contacts and mutually advantageous exchange of experiences in such strategic fields as trade and economy, fuel and energy sector, agriculture, transport and communication, industry, particularly textile, construction and chemical industries and high technologies. Paramount importance is attached to humanitarian co-operation in the spheres of education, science, health care and culture.

During the preliminary bilateral talks Jordan expressed the willingness to open the embassy in Ashgabat and Turkmenistan suggested establishing the bilateral intergovernmental commission for co-operation which stands, as the previous years showed, the optimum and most effective mechanism of constructive partnership based on equality, mutual confidence and benefit.