The Head of State held a meeting with Chairman of the People's Council of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, El.kz reports with reference to Akorda.
President Tokayev expressed gratitude to Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov for his personal participation in the 10th anniversary summit of the Organization of Turkic States.
The President of Kazakhstan stressed that the meeting with the Chairman of the People's Council will contribute to further strengthening the mutually beneficial partnership between the fraternal countries.
According to him, Kazakh-Turkmen relations are successfully developing and fully correspond to the level of strategic partnership.
Tokayev praised the Turkmenistan leader’s huge contribution to the development of cooperation between the two countries . Thus, the meeting today has great practical and political significance, he said.
“Of course, we have a lot to talk about in terms of further development of cooperation between our countries. We are fraternal, neighboring states. There are no problems between Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. There are only fraternal feelings," the Head of State emphasized.
In his turn, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov thanked Kassym-Jomart Tokayev for the invitation to take part in the anniversary summit of the amalgamated communities and praised the interaction between the two countries.
“Over the years, we have accumulated a legal framework on foreign policy, trade, economic, cultural and humanitarian issues. As for foreign policy issues, we are grateful to you. You always maintain our positive neutral status. And separately, I want to emphasize that we are grateful to you, because you, working as a leader in the structures of the United Nations, have done a lot for our foreign policy," said the Chairman of the People's Council of Turkmenistan.
The sides noted the positive dynamics in mutual trade and discussed the implementation of a number of projects in the fields of energy, industry, transport, logistics and other areas. During the meeting, the readiness to further deepen cultural and humanitarian ties was also confirmed.