Turkmen-Kazak Relations on the Up

The presidents of Central Asia’s major oil and gas producers are to exchange visits later this year.



Gurbanguly Berdymuhammedov of Turkmenistan and his Kazak counterpart Nursultan Nazarbaev agreed dates in a recent phone call.



In early September, Berdymuhammedov will travel to Aktau in southeast Kazakstan to attend the closing stages of the Silk Road car rally running from Russia to Central Asia.



Nazarbaev will pay a return visit in December for the launch of a 7,000-kilometre pipeline taking Turkmen gas to China, via Uzbekistan and Kazakstan.