Turkmenistan president to visit Romania

ASHGABAT, May 11 (Itar-Tass) - Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly
Berdymukhamedov leaves herer on Wednesday night for an official visit to
Romania, the press service of the Turkmen government has announced.
Speaking on the eve of the visit, Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov said, "We
regard the forthcoming talks in Bucharest as a new significant iimpetus to
the strengthening and broadening of Turkmen-Romanian interaction, as well
as to a further development of the political dialogue and to effective
economic contacts in Europe as a whole".
A press service official pointed out that the onward dynamism of
Turkmen-Romanian relations demonstrates mutual interest being shown by
the sides in full-scale partnership in both bilateral and multilateral
formats. As a result of the two-day visit, the sides are to sign documents
that will elevated the interstate dialogue to a basically new level that
will accord ith mutual interests.
Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov pays an official visit to Bucharest for a
second time. The first visit was made in July 2008 when the two countries
"laid a durable basis for an intensification of bilaleral interaction
within the context of mutual priorities and contemporary realities".
One year later, the top-level dialogue was carried on during the
first-ever official visit to Turkmenistan by the President of Romania. The
talks held at that time in Ashgabat became "a convincing illustration of
the readiness of Romania and the European Union as a whole to add new
quality and substance to partnership with Turkmenistan". In 2010 Romania's
Institute for international relations and economic cooperation awarded the
prestigious international title of "Person of the Year" to to the Head of
the Turkmen State.
Prioiritised in Turkmen-Romanian cooperation are trade, the fuel and
energy sector, transport and communications, construction, agriculture,
the processing industry and the tourist industry.
In interstate dialogue, a big role is assigned to prospects for
ensuring international energy security resultant of diversification in the
supply of energy resources to the markets of Europe. Romania repeatedly
stated its interest in the deliveries of Turkmenistan's gas. The Romanian
Transgaz Company is a party to the Nabucco gas transportation project
along with the companies of Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, Germany, and
Turkey.