A bilateral meeting between H.E. Mr. Halil Ibrahim Akca, ECO Secretary General and H.E. Mr. Rashid Meredov, Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan was held on 17 April 2017 on the margins of the 23rd ECO Council of Ministers Meeting in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
H.E. Mr. Rashid Meredov expressed his appreciation to H.E. Mr. Halil Ibrahim Akca for his efforts during his tenure to make ECO a vibrant regional economic institution. He also expressed the importance that the Turkmenistan government renders to ECO and the special attention paid by his government to the cooperation in the fields of trade, transport, energy transit and tourism within the framework of the Organization. He also shared the latest development about the ECO Ministerial Meeting of Transport in Turkmenistan to be hosted by Turkmenistan Government on May 3 in 2018.
H.E. Mr. Halil Ibrahim Akca in return thanked the Government of Turkmenistan for their support to ECO and stated that Turkmenistan is a significantly important country in terms of energy and transportation located in a strategic position for ECO projects especially in terms of railway, road and energy connectivity and transit. Secretary General also briefed the H.E. Rashid Meredov about the preparation of the upcoming meeting in Turkmenistan.
