India, Turkmenistan to hold talks on boosting economic ties

NEW DELHI: India and Turkmenistan will hold talks tomorrow on ways to enhance trade and boost scientific and technological cooperation.

Rashid Meredov, Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, is on a visit to India from August 13-15 at the invitation of External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj.

Swaraj and Meredov will tomorrow co-chair the sixth meeting of the Turkmenistan-India Intergovernmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific and Technological Cooperation, a Ministry of External Affairs statement said.

Meredov will also hold a series of other meetings and review the entire gamut of bilateral relations, it said.