Turkmenistan Creates Committee to Oversee New Ahal Provincial Center’s Construction

BUSINESS TURKMENISTAN

President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov during an off-site government meeting on Thursday signed a Decree on establishing the State Committee for the construction of the center of Ahal province. The Committee was created to ensure the highquality construction and commissioning of a new modern administrative center of the province. Under the document, the State Committee for the Construction of Ahal province center in cooperation with the Ministry of Justice and other relevant ministries of Turkmenistan was ordered to prepare and submit draft Regulations of the State Committee, the structure of the central office of the Committee, proposals for the amount of monthly salaries of the Committee's heads and the list of staff of the Committee's central office to the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and visiting NATO Secretary General's Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia Javier Colomina have discussed ArmeniaAzerbaijan normalization, regional security and prospects for bilateral cooperation.

At a meeting that took place in Baku on April 28, the two officials exchanged views on the process of normalization of relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia during the post-conflict period, as well as energy security, and regional security issues and prospects for Azerbaijan-NATO cooperation. The sides recalled the Azerbaijani president's visit to NATO headquarters in late 2021, and his meeting with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, as well as his speech at a meeting of the North Atlantic Council as part of the visit. Azerbaijan’s participation in NATO's "Resolute Support" mission in Afghanistan was also underlined at the meeting. Colomina extended NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg’s greetings to the head of state.

President Ilham Aliyev thanked for Stoltenberg’s greetings and asked Colomina to extend his greetings to the NATO secretary-general. Furthermore, Colomina was received by Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov. The parties discussed Azerbaijan's and NATO's