The consultative meeting of the heads of state of Central Asia will take place on August 6 in the Avaza National Tourist Zone in Turkmenistan.
The date of the summit became known at the meeting of the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev and the Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers/Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov. The meeting took place on July 16 on the sidelines of an international conference in Tashkent, the presidential press service said.
At the end of June, Shavkat Mirziyoyev discussed the issue of organizing the summit with the Turkmen leader Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov.
The third Central Asian Summit 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.
