Turkmen President Serdar Berdimuhamedov participated in the VII Consultative Meeting of the Heads of State of Central Asia. The event is taking place in Tashkent, where the Turkmen leader arrived on Sunday for a state visit, the State News Agency of Turkmenistan reports.
The consultative meetings of the heads of state of Central Asia represent a regional format of interaction created to strengthen good-neighborly relations, trust, and integration processes between the five countries of the region.
Turkmenistan consistently puts forward comprehensive initiatives at these meetings aimed at ensuring security and sustainable development in the Central Asian region, underscoring the country's constructive role within this cooperation format.
The Seventh Consultative Meeting of the Heads of State of Central Asia is being held in Uzbekistan with the participation of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.
The initiative to hold regular consultative meetings of the region's heads of state was put forward by the President of Uzbekistan at the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly in September 2017. The first such meeting took place in March 2018 in Kazakhstan.
