This year the consultative meeting of the Central Asian leaders will be held in Turkmenistan. Shavkat Mirziyoyev discussed the holding of the summit over a telephone conversation with the President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov on June 29, the presidential press service said in a statement.
Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov agreed to thoroughly prepare the program for the upcoming multilateral summit, the statement added.
The two leaders also discussed the military-political situation in Afghanistan, including in the bordering northern provinces of Turkmenistan.
Earlier, Sherzod Asadov. the spokesman to the President of Uzbekistan, noted that the Central Asia Summit will be held in person. “The online format is not on the table,” he stressed then.
The third consultative meeting of the heads of Central Asian countries was originally scheduled for August 2020 in Bishkek, then the summit was postponed until autumn, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was postponed to 2021.
