OREANDA-NEWS. October 8, 2008. The III International Publishing Exhibition and the International Book Fair have been opened at the Exhibition Centre in Ashgabat. The organizers of the three-day forum held in accordance with the Resolution of President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov are the Turkmen State Publishing Service and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Turkmenistan.

The guests from 22 countries worldwide including Ukraine, Germany, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, China, the United Nations, Austria, South Korea, India, Armenia arrived in Ashgabat to take part in the book forum. They will present the latest technical achievements in printing industry and demonstrate typography innovations for books and printed publications. The separate expositions will focus on an important component of printing business – paper production.

The Russian Federation sent most numerous delegation of over a hundred of participants. Nowadays print workers of Turkmenistan and Russia are bound with long-term partnership rapidly developed on the mutually advantageous basis. The Russian delegation represents the large printing companies – Rospechat, the Interregional Association of Print Workers, the Association of Book Publishers of Russia, the Guild of Periodical Publishers. These companies together with the Fund of Social and Economic and Intellectual Programmes of Russia will attend the events held at the schools and libraries in Ashgabat in the framework of the printing forum. The programme includes discussions, meeting with the authors, roundtables and literary soirees.

This book exhibition is held in the period of reforming the national education system, and therefore the guests of the forum are Russia’s largest publishers of academic and scientific literature in engineering sciences including the Nauka Publishing House. The specialists of the Nauka Publishing House together with the colleagues from the publication services of Moscow Institute of High-Power Engineering, Moscow State Technical Institute and others will make the presentation of scientific literature at the Turkmen Polytechnic Institute.

The Turkmen publishers including the Ashgabat Printing House, the Book Chamber, the editorial self-sustained association, the velayat printing services and printing houses will widely present their products. Over 20 entrepreneurs engaged in publishing business will participate in the exhibition. The specialists as well as the people and guests of Turkmenistan can visit the Exhibition during three days.