On January 9, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Diplomacy Mahdi Safari met with Turkmen Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov in Ashgabat , the press service of the Turkmen Foreign Ministry reports .

It is reported that the parties discussed the development of cooperation in the fuel and energy and transport and transit sectors. Other details are not given.

On the eve of the meeting, according to the Iranian news agency IRNA, Rashid Meredov had a telephone conversation with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian about "expanding mutually beneficial cooperation." The details of the conversation are also not reported.

On December 20, 2022, the foreign ministers of the two countries also called each other by phone. According to IRNA, the Iranian side was interested in the transit of Turkmen gas through Iran.

On December 11, Meredov met with Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Reza Najafi in Ashgabat . What was discussed at the talks is not specified, but Najafi conveyed an invitation to the Foreign Minister of Turkmenistan to visit Iran.

Source: Chronicles of Turkmenistan