Turkmenistan suggests establishment of Central Asian Cultural Dialogue Forum

AKIPRESS.COM - President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov has suggested establishment of the Central Asian Cultural Dialogue Forum at the meeting of the Central Asian leaders in Tashkent on November 29. "Encouraging broad humanitarian contacts, developing cultural bonds, we ensure continuity of traditions of good neighborhood, mutual understanding and sympathies for each other," the Turkmen leader said.
Creative intellectuals of the region should play a key role in this process, he said.
They could initiate a new form of the dialogue that can be called the Cultural Dialogue Forum of Central Asia, the Turkmen President said.
Turkmenistan is committed to further expansion of good neighborly relations with all Central Asian states.
"We see the potential and prospects of our cooperation in politics, security, economy, trade, ecology, culture, science, education. We are bound with common goals and gradually try to achieve them," the Turkmen President said.