On June 11, a Deputy Foreign Minister of Turkmenistan Mahri Bashimova met with an Ambassador of the Republic of Austria to Turkmenistan (resident in Baku) Thomas Schuller-Gotzburg and the Director of the Department for International Economic Relations of a Federal Ministry of Economics, Energy and Tourism of the Republic of Austria, Elisabeth Weissenbock. The meeting was reported by a press service of a Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan.
Special attention was paid to increasing the volume of mutual trade and strengthening economic cooperation, including within the framework of the EU's Global Gateway initiative. The important role of the Joint Turkmen-Austrian Commission in the implementation of these tasks was emphasized.
The importance of expanding cooperation between higher educational institutions of the two countries for the development of educational and scientific ties was also highlighted.