Turkmenistan, Iran Call for Broadening of Communications Cooperation

Date: 12 October 2018 - 21:40

News ID: ۵۸۴۱۰

ASHGABAT (Dispatches) - Senior Iranian and Turkmen communications officials in a meeting in Ashgabat have stressed the need for expanding bilateral relations in technological fields.
Iran's Minister of Communications and Information Technology Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi and his Turkmen counterpart Bayramgeldi Ovezov met on the sideline of ‘TurkmenTEL 2018’.
The Iranian side pointed to the resolve of the two countries’ presidents to expand bilateral relations, and said that Iran’s ICT Ministry is ready to boost the level of cooperation with Turkmenistan in the communications field.
He also officially invited Turkmen minister and companies to visit Iran and participate in Tehran-based ELECOM 2019 exhibition.
Ovezov, for his part, accepted the invitation of his Iranian counterpart, and said that increasing ICT cooperation with Tehran is of high importance for Ashgabat.
He further called for establishing a special working group to permanently study and assess the level of ICT cooperation between the two countries.
The 11th International Conference on Telecommunications, Telemetry, Information Technologies and Broadcasting Equipment, called ‘TurkmenTEL 2018’ for short, kicked off on Wednesday in Ashgabat and ended on Thursday. The conference and exhibition featured new technologies, highlighted investment opportunities for the development of telecommunications networks in Turkmenistan and improve the main fiber-optic networks, terrestrial and satellite broadcasting.