The President of the Russian Federation D. Medvedev held an official visit to Ashgabat on July 4-5, 2008 on an invitation from Turkmen President G. Berdymukhammedov. A series of meetings and negotiations were staged in the course of the visit involving Russian-Turkmen Business Council Chairman I. Okhtyrsky and the Council’s Executive Director S. Garichev. Special attention was devoted to the fuel and energy complex cooperation. Participants analyzed the implementation of the Joint Declaration on the Pre-Caspian gas pipeline’s construction, which was signed last year, and the development of existing gas transmission capacities in the Central Asian region.
President D. Medvedev noted that a number of Russian companies have already established a strong foothold on the Turkmen market – ones like Gazprom, Itera, KamAZ, Stroytransgaz, TMK and many others – which means that the broadest of prospects exist for establishing new and very successful joint projects.