The three-day trip of parliamentarians of the Turkmen Majlis to the Republic of Korea, which was organized from 17 to 19 September this year, ended on Tuesday. The main purpose of the visit was the participation of representatives of Turkmenistan's legislature in the first meeting of parliamentarians "Central Asia - Korea". The Turkmen delegation was headed by Chairman of the Mejlis D. Gulmanova. This is reported on the official website website Foreign Ministry of Turkmenistan.
The head of the Turkmen delegation emphasized in her speech that the initiative to establish the Central Asia-Korea Inter-Parliamentary Forum was first put forward in November 2022 by the National Leader of the Turkmen people, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, during his official visit to the Republic of Korea at the invitation of the Speaker of the National Assembly Kim Jin-pyo.
At the successful first forum of Central Asian and Republic of Korea parliamentary speakers in Seoul on Tuesday, Korean Assembly Speaker Kim Jin-pyo said South Korea hopes to "blossom cooperation and a mutually beneficial future in a new era."
The official session of the conference on Tuesday ended with a luncheon hosted by Busan Mayor Park Hong-joon. He asked representatives of Central Asian countries to support South Korea's bid to host the 2030 World Expo in Busan, located 320 kilometers southeast of Seoul.
According to the press office MFA Turkmenistan, this forum will be held annually and the place of the second meeting of the speakers of the parliaments of Central Asian countries and the Republic of Korea next year will be Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan. It should be reminded that this idea was initiated by Chairman of the Khalk Maslakhaty of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, who proposed to hold the second meeting of parliamentarians "Central Asia - Korea" in Ashgabat to the head of the National Assembly of South Korea Kim Jin-pyo in the July meeting politicians.
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