DUSHANBE, May 29, 2009, Asia-Plus  -- On Wednesday May 28, new Turkmenistan’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Tajikistan Nurberdy Amanmuradov presented copies of his credentials to Foreign Minister Hamrokhon Zarifi.

According to the MFA information department, Zarifi highly appraised the present state of bilateral relations between Tajikistan and Turkmenistan and noted that both countries had good potentials for further expansion of bilateral mutually beneficial trade and economic cooperation.

Dwelling on issues related to regional cooperation, Tajik minister noted that ways of rational use of water-and-energy resources of Tajikistan and the Central Asian region as a whole were frequently becoming a matter of misunderstanding and, sometimes, even emergence of a tense situation because of misinterpretation of their goals and objectives.

“Measures taken by the Tajik government to construct hydropower facilities are aimed at, first of al, promoting solution of water-and-energy problems in the region and ecological problems of the Aral Sea…,’ Zarifi said, noting that the government of Tajikistan is guided by principles of policy of openness and takes into account interests of all neighboring countries while implementing hydroelectricity projects.

In the course of the talks, the sides also discussed the possibility of participation of Turkmenistan in an international consortium for the completion of construction of the Roghun hydroelectric power station in Tajikistan.