The Indian President is on a visit to Turkmenistan. This is the first-ever visit of the President of India to independent Turkmenistan.<\/span><\/p>\n Agreements: <\/b>The two countries <\/span>signed four agreements, including in financial intelligence and disaster management, and agreed to expand bilateral trade and energy cooperation to further strengthen the multifaceted partnership.<\/span><\/p>\n INSTC: <\/b>President of Turkmenistan conveyed his readiness to join the <\/span>International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC).<\/span><\/a> He proposed that the Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran railway line could be a linked corridor of the INSTC to streamline the movement of goods between Turkmenistan and India and beyond.<\/span><\/p>\n India proposed that the <\/span>Chabahar port<\/b> <\/a>built by India in Iran could be used to improve trade between India and Central Asia.<\/span><\/p>\n TAPI Pipeline<\/b><\/a>:<\/b> India suggested that issues related to the security of the Turkmenistan -Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline may be addressed in Technical and Expert level meetings.<\/span><\/p>\n UNSC: <\/b>India thanked Turkmenistan for its support to India\u2019s permanent membership in a reformed and expanded UN Security Council as well as for India\u2019s initiatives as a non-permanent member of UNSC for the period of 2021-22.<\/span><\/p>\n \u200b\u200b<\/span>Turkmenistan is an important partner for India in the <\/span>India-Central Asia Summit <\/span><\/a>framework, the first of which India hosted virtually in January 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n Turkmenistan possesses very large reserves of natural gas.<\/span><\/p>\n Turkmenistan is also strategically placed in Central Asia, and connectivity is something on which India feels a partnership with Turkmenistan will pay dividends.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>This post is based on the article <\/span>\u201cIndia, Turkmenistan sign 4 MoUs for cooperation, agree to expand bilateral trade\u201d<\/b> published in <\/span>Indian Express <\/b>on 2nd April 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? The Indian President is on a visit to Turkmenistan. This is the first-ever visit of the President of India to independent Turkmenistan. What are the key highlights from the India-Turkmenistan meet? Agreements: The two countries signed four agreements, including in financial intelligence and disaster management, and agreed to expand bilateral trade… Continue reading India, Turkmenistan sign 4 MoUs for cooperation, agree to expand bilateral trade<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-177704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704744949},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What are the key highlights from the India-Turkmenistan meet?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What is the importance of Turkmenistan for India?<\/b><\/h5>\n