President Serdar Berdimuhamedov visited Uzbekistan to participate in the SCO summit
16:43 15.09.2022 7248
On the morning of September 15, the President of Turkmenistan arrived in Uzbekistan to attend the regular meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), which will be held on September 15-16 in Samarkand.
According to the press service of the Uzbek leader, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan Abdulla Aripov and other officials met the President of Turkmenistan at the airport.
According to the program, today the President of Turkmenistan will visit the Khazret Khyzr complex, and will also take part in the commemoration ceremony for the first President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov.
Many bilateral talks are also scheduled for September 15. In the evening, informal events of the SCO summit will begin, Sherzod Asadov, press secretary of the President of Uzbekistan, said at a briefing in Samarkand.
The main event – the SCO summit – will be held on September 16 under the chairmanship of Shavkat Mirziyoyev in the congress hall of the new tourist center of Samarkand «The Great Silk Road».
At the Samarkand summit, topical issues of further building up multilateral cooperation, practical aspects and priority tasks for the development of the SCO will be considered. An exchange of views on international and regional issues will take place. As a result of the meeting, it is planned to adopt a solid package of documents to expand the activities of the Shas and deepen regional cooperation in priority areas.
OPEC will be headed by a representative of Kuwait from August
At an extraordinary meeting of OPEC, the ministers elected a new secretary general of the organization – from August 1, 2022, Haitham Al-Qais from Kuwait was elected for a period of three years, Interfax reported.
President of Turkmenistan outlined the priorities for the development of the country's gas industry
Last Wednesday, President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov held a meeting in the administrative center of Lebap velayat, at which he heard reports from the heads of the country's fuel and energy complex and defined the tasks of developing the gas industry for the future, the State News Agency of the country reports.
Turkmenistan is one of the three leaders in the supply of gasoline to Uzbekistan
In January-November 2021, Uzbekistan imported 141.2 million liters of motor gasoline from Turkmenistan. This was reported by the State Statistics Committee of Uzbekistan. Thus, Turkmenistan ranks second in the supply of motor gasoline to the neighboring country.
Over 320 billion cubic meters of Turkmen gas supplied since the start of operation of the Turkmenistan-China gas pipeline, – CNPC
Since the opening of the transnational Turkmenistan-China gas pipeline in 2009, over 320 billion cubic meters of Turkmen gas have been exported to the Celestial Empire. General director of the branch of the National Petroleum Corporation of China (CNPC) Chen Huailong stated this, the Watan news program of the Turkmen television reported.
New gas resources discovered in Lebap region of Turkmenistan
In the territories adjacent to the Malay and Nayip gas fields in the Lebap region of Turkmenistan, a new dome was discovered in the lower layers of the Northern Dervush and Malay fields. Chairman of the State Corporation «Turkmengeology» Merdan Rozyev reported this to President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov at a working meeting in Turkmenabat, the State Television and Radio Broadcasting of Turkmenistan reported.