The readiness to establish a regular dialogue between the Cyprus-Turkmenistan Friendship Groups was expressed by the President of the Cyprus-Turkmenistan Friendship Group of the House of Representatives Haris Georgiades and President of the Turkmenistan parliamentarian group Batyr Bayliyev during the first meeting the two Groups.
An official press release said the President of the House Standing Committee on Foreign and European Affairs and President of the Cyprus-Turkmenistan Friendship Group in the House of Representatives, Georgiades, and the members of the Committee, Marios Mavrides, George Loucaides, Marina Nicolaou and Chrysis Pantelides had on Tuesday an online meeting with President Batyr Bayliyev and the Members of the respective Friendship Group in the Parliament of Turkmenistan Merdan Tuvakov and Chemen Rejepova.
During the meeting, the two Presidents welcomed this first meeting between the newly established Friendship Groups in the two Parliaments, as a first step towards the further development
of friendly relations and cooperation between the two countries, especially in their parliamentary dimension, both bilaterally and within the framework of international parliamentary organisations, in which the two Parliaments participate. such as the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the Asian Parliamentary Assembly.
Georgiades, pointing out that the two countries are located in areas of great strategic importance, underlined that the priority of the foreign policy of the Republic of Cyprus is for our country to be a factor of peace, stability and cooperation in a highly unstable region.
He also noted that Cyprus, as the closest member state of the European Union to the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean region and due to the excellent relations, it maintains with almost all its neighbours, is a bridge of dialogue and cooperation between Europe and the countries of the region.
He expressed readiness to establish regular
dialogue between the Friendship Groups in the two Parliaments, but also within the framework of international parliamentary organisations, utilising the possibilities offered by parliamentary diplomacy to strengthen relations and cooperation between Cyprus and Turkmenistan in areas of common interest, including economic and trade, but also in EU-Turkmenistan relations.
The two Parliaments also expressed the readiness to continue the dialogue between the respective Friendship Groups.
Source: Cyprus News Agency