Kyiv and Ashgabat to launch direct flights
Ukraine and Turkmenistan will consider an opportunity to launch regular
flights between Kyiv and Ashgabat and to obtain a certificate of registration
of Ukrainian airlines representative office in Turkmenistan.
The relevant accord was recorded in the final Protocol on the outcomes of
the 4th meeting of the joint intergovernmental Ukrainian-Turkmen Commission on
economic, cultural and humanitarian cooperation. The Protocol was signed by co-chairs
of the Commission - Vice Prime Minister, Minister of Regional Development,
Construction, Housing and Utilities of Ukraine Hennadii
Zubko and Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers
of Turkmenistan Baymyrat Hojamuhammedov.
In the document the parties reaffirm the willingness of the sides to
develop cooperation in space area and to consider another possible directions.
In the framework of the visit, Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Hennadii Zubko also met with the
President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow. At the meeting they discussed a wide range
of cooperation issues between the two countries, and the possibility to increase
collaboration in trade, economic, energy and humanitarian spheres.
According
to the document, the 5th meeting of the Intergovernmental Commission is scheduled
for 2016 in Ukraine.