The 39th meeting of the Council of heads of communication administrations of the Regional Commonwealth in the communications sphere and 13th meeting of the Coordination Council of CIS member-states on informational technologies has convened in the Turkmen capital.

During the meeting with Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, September 23, Rudi Lampreht, Executive Advisor to the Central Board of Siemens AG, and Stefan Gtz, head of Gotz & Partner, and this company’s representative Hans Prodyol reported on the progress of preparing the strategy of cooperation for the nearest 10-15 years.

The second international exhibition of telecommunications, telemetry, informational technologies and TV and Radio broadcasting “Turkmentel-2008” and scientific conference has opened in Sergi Koshgi Exhibition Hall of Ashgabat.

As the Ashgabat correspondent of Turkmenistan.ru reports, over 70 Turkmen and world manufacturers of telecommunication equipment, leading distributors and providers from 20 countries including Russia, Japan, Germany, USA, China, Great Britain, Finland take part in the event. Russia is represented by leading companies as MTS, Megaphone, Beeline, Golden Telecom, etc.

Three million trees will be planted in Turkmenistan as part of the next phase of tree planting. The Green Belt of the Turkmen capital will grow by 845 hectares of land planted with trees. New trees will be also planted in 4800 hectares of virgin land of Ak Bugday and Geoktepe districts. 625 trees will be planed in one hectare.