Ashgabat will host the 15th meeting of the Council of Elders of the Organisation of Turkic States (OTS) from 11 to 13 March, local TV channel Altyn Asyr reports.
The decree was signed by Turkmen President Serdar Berdimuhamedov "with a view to further developing and comprehensively strengthening multi-faceted relations and constructive cooperation with the OTS based on the principles of good neighbourliness and mutual understanding".
The OTS comprises Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkey and Uzbekistan; Turkmenistan is the only Turkic-speaking state in Central Asia to remain an observer in the OTS (from 2021), along with Hungary and Northern Cyprus.
The head of the People's Council (Halk Maslahaty), Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, during his recent visit to Turkey, allowed for the possibility that Turkmenistan could become a full member of the OTS in 2024.
The politician told reporters that his country would host a representative summit this year to mark the 300th anniversary of the birth of Turkmen classicist Makhtumkuli Fraghi. The Neutral Turkmenistan newspaper wrote: "Chairman Halk Maslahaty said that Turkmenistan could become a member of the Organisation of Turkic States at this summit.
Eziz Boyarov
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