OREANDA-NEWS. December 16, 2009. President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov is on an official visit to Japan. Despite the geographical remoteness, independent neutral Turkmenistan and the Land of the Rising Sun are bound with the ties of friendship and mutually beneficial cooperation that is brought up to a qualitatively new, higher level nowadays meeting modern realities and mutual potential.

Therefore, the programme of the Turkmen leader’s three-day visit to Japan is very rich in the important talks and business meetings. On December 16, the President of Turkmenistan and the Prime Minister of Japan have held the talks, which are expected to result in signing a package of bilateral documents that will foster Turkmen-Japanese partnership of the priority fields.

It should be noted that the 8th meeting of the Turkmen-Japanese Economic Committee that aims its activity at developing optimal approaches to implementing the profound versatile potential of cooperation, has been conducted in Tokyo on this day.

On December 17, President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov will have an audience with Emperor of Japan Akihito. On the same day, the Turkmen leader will have a meeting with the top managers of the Japanese large companies – the leaders on the world market and express intense interest in enhancing effective business contacts with Turkmen partners. The discussion of further development and diversification of Turkmen-Japanese cooperation will be continued during a business launch that is a traditional form of business talks across the world. On December 18, the Turkmen leader will visit Osaka, where he will meet with the top managers of the world-renowned company Komatsu and make an excursion around the manufacturing plant – one of the industrial giants in the Land of the Rising Sun.

Spotlighting the vast opportunities of Turkmen-Japanese economic cooperation it should be noted that humanitarian cooperation serves as an integral aspect of the intergovernmental relations.

Thus, opening a new chapter in the history of the traditionally friendly intergovernmental dialogue the Turkmen leader’s official visit to Japan will certainly give new impetus to intensification of bilateral cooperation built on the principles of equality, mutual respect and benefit that has the huge potential and is aimed at concrete results.