OREANDA-NEWS. December 05, 2012. Vladimir Putin made a working visit to Turkmenistan, where he took part in a meeting of the CIS Council of Heads of State.

Also taking part in the summit were President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon, President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov, President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, Prime Minister of Azerbaijan Artur Rasizade, Prime Minister of Moldova Vladimir Filat, and Kyrgyzstan Foreign Minister Erlan Abdylayev. President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov welcomed the summit participants.