Qatar’s relations with diverse actors and governments across the globe have positioned it as an essential conduit, mediator and champion of respectful bilateral ties between nations. Qatar pursues priorities like expanding dialogue and relations surrounding nations in the Gulf, Middle East and wider Asia. It further demonstrates the country’s principles of strengthening international peace and security.
In light of this, Qatar welcomed the President of Turkmenistan H E Serdar Berdimuhamedow. Qatar-Turkmenistan relations were first established in 1996. The Qatar embassy opened in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, in 2014.
In 2010, former President of Turkmenistan H E Gurbanguly Mälikgulyýewiç’s made an official visit to Qatar. In 2016, H H the Amir paid a State Visit to Turkmenistan, followed by an official visit to Qatar in 2017 by Mälikgulyýewiç, where both leaders reviewed the bilateral relations and the desire to enhance cooperation in various fields.
As Berdimuhamedow concluded his State Visit to Qatar, relations between both countries was further cemented with the opening of the Embassy of Turkmenistan in Doha. Besides that, both countries also signed several MoUs.
During talk sessions between H H the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and the Turkmen leader, both countries discussed bilateral relations and the means to enhance them in all fields, particularly education, economy, investment, commerce, energy, sports, and social affairs, in addition to exchanging views on the most prominent regional and international issues.
MoUs were signed to cover disaster management between the two countries’ governments, cooperation between Qatar’s Public Prosecution Office and the Prosecutor General’s Office of Turkmenistan, and cooperation between youth from Qatar and Turkmenistan.
Both leaders also witnessed the signing of a programme for cooperation in sports between the Ministry of Sports and Youth in Qatar and the State Committee for Physical Culture and Sports in Turkmenistan for 2023-2024.
Both sides also reached agreements on the exemption from visa requirements for holders of diplomatic and special passports and services between the two governments to encourage and protect mutual investments between the governments of the two countries and an MoU between the Ministry of Labor of the State of Qatar and the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Population of Turkmenistan.
The Turkmen president also met with the Qatar Chamber (QC) and the Qatar Businessmen Association (QBA) members. He stressed the significant development between Qatar and his country over the past few years and wooed investments from Qatar, stating that all conditions are available for further development.
