OREANDA-NEWS. August 21, 2014. President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov received President of General Electric Power & Water for Europe, Middle East and Africa, Mr. Ricardo Cordoba. Chairman of the Board of Governors of the group of companies Calik Holding Ahmet Chalik attended the meeting.

The sides exchanged views on the opportunities to expand mutually beneficial partnership in the framework of the plans on modernization of energy infrastructure of Turkmenistan through the use of advanced technology and state-of-the-art equipment. In particular, the draft projects of the combined-cycle plant and the training centre for training energy specialists developed by General Electric was presented to the Turkmen leader for consideration.

President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov said that Turkmenistan was keenly interested in establishing active cooperation in maintenance service and training of qualified specialists for Turkmenistan's energy sector. Training could be provided at the State Energy Institute in Mary.