President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov addressed the welcoming statement to participants of the 2nd international exhibition of telecommunication, telemetric and information technologies and television and radio equipment Turkmentel-2008 and the scientific conference.

Expressing belief that the specialized exhibition and conference would help to work out the constructive approaches to and specify the key parameters of co-operation in this field the Turkmen leader emphasized:

“In the century of an onrush of science and technology to imagine the life without telecommunications is impossible. Therefore, after gaining independence we started to attach due attention to development of this field along with the other sectors. The best international practice and advanced technologies were applied in the shortest period.

“Today the demand in the advanced communication services increases in Turkmenistan that is satisfied by the new technologies and internet. We create all conditions so that every citizen of Turkmenistan could have an access to the internet and state-of-art communications and attach close attention to the progress of telecommunication technologies.

“Today when the state telecommunication systems from the remote and neighbouring countries are represented at the forum in Ashgabat we open the doors of independent neutral Turkmenistan for all those willing to establish positive partnership with us.”