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2024.12.01 09:57 GMT+8

China, Turkmenistan pledge to strengthen bilateral cooperation

Updated 2024.12.01 09:57 GMT+8
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (R) and Turkmen Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov sign a memorandum of cooperation between the foreign ministries of the two countries, Chengdu City, southwest China's Sichuan Province, November 30, 2024. /Chinese Foreign Ministry

China and Turkmenistan have reaffirmed their commitment to deepening bilateral cooperation across a range of sectors, including trade, energy and cultural exchanges. 

The pledge was made during a meeting between Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Turkmen Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov on Saturday in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province. Meredov was in China to attend the fifth China-Central Asia Foreign Ministers' Meeting.

Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said the two sides should continue the traditional friendship, implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, firmly support each other on issues concerning each other's core interests, explore new ideas in expanding all-around mutually beneficial cooperation, make new breakthroughs in promoting energy cooperation, and take new steps in strengthening people-to-people exchanges.

China is willing to further expand the scale of trade and investment cooperation with Turkmenistan and will encourage more Chinese-funded enterprises to invest in Turkmenistan, Wang added.

Meredov said Turkmenistan adheres to permanent friendship with China and is willing to keep close high-level exchanges with China, give full play to the role of the Turkmenistan-China Cooperation Committee and promote mutually beneficial cooperation on the flagship project of natural gas trade between the two sides.

(With input from Xinhua)

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