Georgian Parliament Speaker leaves for official visit to Central Asia to hold high-level meetings
The visit of the Georgian Parliamentary delegation to the Central Asian region will end on April 13. Photo via Parliament of Georgia
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Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili on Sunday left for an official visit to the Central Asian region to hold high-level meetings with the leaders of the legislative and executive authorities of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan.
The Parliamentary delegation, led by Papuashvili, includes heads of friendship groups of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan in the legislative body, Kakha Kakhniashvili, Davit Matikashvili and Irakli Mezurnishvili, the Parliament press office said.
Baya Kvitsiani, the Deputy Chair of the Education, Science and Youth Affairs Committee, Anton Obolashvili, the Budget and Finance Committee member, and Sozar Subari, the member of the Agrarian Issues Committee are also part of the Georgian delegation.
The visit of the Georgian Parliamentary delegation to the Central Asian region will end on April 13.
The deepening of relations, joint projects and the transit potential of Georgia and Turkmenistan were discussed by Irakli Garibashvili, the Prime Minister of Georgia, and Serdar Berdimuhamedow, the President of Turkmenistan, in capital Ashgabat on Wednesday.
Main areas of bilateral cooperation between Georgia and Uzbekistan were discussed on Monday in an extended format meeting between the Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili and his Uzbek counterpart Abdulla Aripov.
Alibek Kuantyrov, the Economy Minister of Kazakhstan, on Thursday said his country, Azerbaijan, Turkey and Georgia were expecting to increase exports from the Caspian Sea through the Middle Corridor, a logistics link connecting Europe with Asia, to 10 million tonnes by 2025.
Georgian Foreign Minister Ilia Darchiashvili on Monday met his Kazakh counterpart Murat Nurtleu to discuss “fruitful cooperation” between the two countries on the sidelines of the ongoing United Nations Human Rights Council session in Geneva.