Turkmenistan to bolster cooperation with Belarus in biotechnology

Turkmenistan is interested in cooperation with Belarus in the field of biotechnology, BelTA learned from the press service of the State Committee for Science and Technology (SCST) of Belarus.

On 27 November Minsk played host to the first meeting of the intergovernmental Belarusian-Turkmen commission on cooperation in the field of science and technology. The parties discussed the prospects of cooperation and shared information on the status and prospects of the development of science, technology and innovation sectors in the two countries. According to the State Committee for Science and Technology, Turkmenistan would like to cooperate in such areas as agriculture, biotechnology, chemical science, energy-saving technologies, and would like to establish regular exchange of statistical publications in science, technology and innovation, and arrange scientific seminars in these areas.

The parties also considered the list of priority areas for further development of cooperation: agriculture; energy-saving technologies; physics and mathematics; biotechnology; chemical technology; ecology and environmental protection. A decision was made to devise an executive program of the Belarusian-Turkmen scientific and technical and innovation cooperation in 2014-2015. The program will include a cooperation plan between the National Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Sciences of Turkmenistan and the proposals for joint projects of the Education Ministry of Belarus.

The second meeting of the intergovernmental Belarusian-Turkmen commission on cooperation in science and technology will be held in Ashgabat in 2015.