President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov is arriving for a state visit to Malaysia today. This visit is to offer a new impetus to foster mutually advantageous cooperation and identify its prospects given the plans of long-term collaboration.
This visit will become a critical practical step contributing to consistent implementation of the foreign policy strategy of our country with such a key aspect as promotion of full cooperation with Asian and Pacific countries. In this context the Turkmen leader’s visit allows saying about the opening of new horizons of cooperation not only between these two countries but also between the two globally geostrategic regions. Turkmenistan plays the leading role in the Central Asian region, and Malaysia copes with its part in the southeast of the continent.
Turkmen-Malaysian partnership is distinguished for the dynamic and long-term character and the mutual willingness to achieve practical results of effective cooperation. Its priority fields include the fuel and energy, trade and economic, high tech, tourism and education sectors, investment in high tech industries.
The President of Turkmenistan was invited to pay a visit by Prime Minister of Malaysia Mohd Najib bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak during his official visit to Turkmenistan in July of this year. This visit and the Turkmen-Malaysian top level talks resulted in signing the important bilateral documents on cooperation at the intergovernmental and interdepartmental levels, including in the trade and economic sector and the oil and gas industry, and on issues in international relations.
At that time the ceremony of putting the gas purification plant into operation took place in Balkan Velayat of Turkmenistan. This facility is built by the Malaysian company Petronas that develops the offshore Block 1 in the Turkmen sector of the Caspian Sea under the production sharing agreement.
“We have the long-term positive experience of partnership with Malaysia that has all prerequisites to grow into full-scale interstate collaboration given the vast opportunities open up nowadays,” emphasized President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov speaking at the ceremony of putting this new industrial facility into operation.
In the summer the Government of Malaysia adopted the decision to open the embassy in Turkmenistan. This fact evidences that the leadership of Malaysia highly values cooperation with Turkmenistan and stands ready to consistently and effectively enhance bilateral relations.
The visit programme includes the meetings and talks of President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov with King of Malaysia Mizan Zainal Abidin ibni Almarhum Al-Sultan Mahmud Al-Muktafi Billah Shah and Prime Minister of Malaysia Mohd Najib bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak. These meetings and talks are expected to focus on the priority issues of interstate cooperation in a wide spectrum of fields particularly related to intensifying collaboration in the trade and economic and fuel and energy sectors and in the humanitarian sphere, including culture, science, education and professional training where the countries have accumulated the positive experience of cooperation and established fruitful contacts. Many Turkmen young citizens study at higher educational institutions in Malaysia, including the Petronas University of Technology.
Thus, the state visit of the President of Turkmenistan to Malaysia will be the manifestation of mutual interest in stepping up a dialogue between the two countries and certainly open up new horizons of Turkmen-Malaysian cooperation build on the firm foundation of friendship and mutually advantageous partnership.
This visit will become a critical practical step contributing to consistent implementation of the foreign policy strategy of our country with such a key aspect as promotion of full cooperation with Asian and Pacific countries. In this context the Turkmen leader’s visit allows saying about the opening of new horizons of cooperation not only between these two countries but also between the two globally geostrategic regions. Turkmenistan plays the leading role in the Central Asian region, and Malaysia copes with its part in the southeast of the continent.
Turkmen-Malaysian partnership is distinguished for the dynamic and long-term character and the mutual willingness to achieve practical results of effective cooperation. Its priority fields include the fuel and energy, trade and economic, high tech, tourism and education sectors, investment in high tech industries.
The President of Turkmenistan was invited to pay a visit by Prime Minister of Malaysia Mohd Najib bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak during his official visit to Turkmenistan in July of this year. This visit and the Turkmen-Malaysian top level talks resulted in signing the important bilateral documents on cooperation at the intergovernmental and interdepartmental levels, including in the trade and economic sector and the oil and gas industry, and on issues in international relations.
At that time the ceremony of putting the gas purification plant into operation took place in Balkan Velayat of Turkmenistan. This facility is built by the Malaysian company Petronas that develops the offshore Block 1 in the Turkmen sector of the Caspian Sea under the production sharing agreement.
“We have the long-term positive experience of partnership with Malaysia that has all prerequisites to grow into full-scale interstate collaboration given the vast opportunities open up nowadays,” emphasized President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov speaking at the ceremony of putting this new industrial facility into operation.
In the summer the Government of Malaysia adopted the decision to open the embassy in Turkmenistan. This fact evidences that the leadership of Malaysia highly values cooperation with Turkmenistan and stands ready to consistently and effectively enhance bilateral relations.
The visit programme includes the meetings and talks of President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov with King of Malaysia Mizan Zainal Abidin ibni Almarhum Al-Sultan Mahmud Al-Muktafi Billah Shah and Prime Minister of Malaysia Mohd Najib bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak. These meetings and talks are expected to focus on the priority issues of interstate cooperation in a wide spectrum of fields particularly related to intensifying collaboration in the trade and economic and fuel and energy sectors and in the humanitarian sphere, including culture, science, education and professional training where the countries have accumulated the positive experience of cooperation and established fruitful contacts. Many Turkmen young citizens study at higher educational institutions in Malaysia, including the Petronas University of Technology.
Thus, the state visit of the President of Turkmenistan to Malaysia will be the manifestation of mutual interest in stepping up a dialogue between the two countries and certainly open up new horizons of Turkmen-Malaysian cooperation build on the firm foundation of friendship and mutually advantageous partnership.