BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 5
By Jeila Aliyeva - Trend:
Ukrainian companies are interested in implementing Turkmen projects, Trend reports with reference to the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Turkmenistan.
Interbudmontazh Construction Association and Altcom Financial Industrial Group are interested in participating in the implementation of the Ashgabat-City project.
In addition, the above-mentioned Ukrainian companies are interested in the construction of a metro in the Turkmen capital and intercity highways
As earlier the Ministry of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture of Ukraine told Trend, Ukraine and Turkmenistan are ready to sign a number of documents.
"Now come the preparations for the fifth meeting of the Joint intergovernmental Ukrainian-Turkmen Commission on economic and cultural-humanitarian cooperation, which is scheduled to take place in 2021, the agreement which will be noted in the relevant bilateral documents," the Ministry said.
An important task of the parties is to determine the key areas of cooperation, joint initiatives, including the format of participation of the Ukrainian side in the context of the creation of a logistics hub in Turkmenistan, and so on.
The report notes that Ukraine considers Turkmenistan as one of the key partners in Central Asia.
"According to еhe results of 2020 the volume of bilateral trade in goods was $85.5 million, export amounted to $56.1 million (an increase of 2 percent), import – $29.4 million," the ministry said.
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