OREANDA-NEWS. April 11, 2008. The Austrian governmental delegation led by Adviser to the Federal Minister of Economics and Labour, Director-General for Foreign Economic Relations Johann Sachs, who had arrived in Turkmenistan to participate in the meeting of the bilateral Turkmen-Austrian commission, visited littoral Turkmenbashi town.

The presentation of the Avaza National Project was arranged for the Austrian guests at the Turkmenbashi Hotel. The project initiated by President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov was aimed at creating the world-class seaside resort on the ecologically pure Turkmen coast of the Caspian Sea. The Austrian businessmen noted that the project provided the vast opportunities for maintaining the business mutually advantageous contacts in such promising field as international tourism.

In the afternoon the guests returned to Ashgabat. On April 11, the first meeting of the bilateral Turkmen-Austrian commission called upon to specify the priority fields of bilateral co-operation at its new stage and to work out the effective approaches to fostering successful partnership.