OREANDA-NEWS. April 1, 2009. The representative delegation of the Astrakhan Oblast of the Russian Federation led by Minister of Economic Development of the Astrakhan Oblast A. Kabikeev visits Ashgabat.

During the visit of the government delegation of one of Russia’s largest regions the partners intend to discuss the progress of the bilateral agreements including those reached during the recent state visit of the President of Turkmenistan to the Russian Federation. The focus of the talks is the concrete trends in further development of mutually advantageous cooperation based the profound potential and the large-scale reform programmes initiated in Turkmenistan. The Russian guests will have the meetings at the Government, ministries and departments of the country, which the Russian partners are greatly interested in cooperation with.