President Serdar Berdimuhamedov, speaking online at the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, suggested that the countries of the Organization pay attention to the development of a number of specific areas of cooperation.
First, the Head of state proposed to establish political and diplomatic cooperation in the field of cyber and biosecurity.
According to the President of Turkmenistan, secondly, it is necessary to form a mechanism of logistics activities aimed at creating new and improving the efficiency of existing intercontinental and regional transport and transit corridors.
The Head of State believes that, thirdly, it is necessary to create conditions for systematic and long-term cooperation in the energy sector by planning joint projects to diversify energy supplies. At the same time, we are talking about the saturation of the needs of the SCO states, and about the prospects of entering foreign markets.
According to President Serdar Berdimuhamedov, fourthly, it is necessary to establish a platform for effective partnership in the field of high technologies.
And fifth, the Head of state proposed the coordination of joint work in the field of climate change, environmental protection and ecology. In this context, all interested parties were also invited to consider the possibility of participating in the implementation of Turkmenistan's initiative to establish a Regional Center for technologies related to climate change.
"As a first step, I consider it advisable to hold consultations at the expert-level on each of the above-mentioned areas. We proceed from the fact that such consultations will allow us to better assess the opportunities and needs available to us, to develop on this basis the modalities of further joint work," President Serdar Berdimuhamedov stressed.
The head of state also noted that such a format could be used in the future on other topical aspects of the dialogue between Turkmenistan and the SCO, including in such areas as culture, humanitarian cooperation, science, education and health.
