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Ashgabat now counts 44 documents from its Seoul visit and turns to a Moscow commission

Turkmenistan's Cabinet met by video link on Friday 18 September. The state site's readout raises the Korean visit's tally to 44 signed documents, from the 29 listed by name last week, and turns to preparations for the 14th session of the Turkmen-Russian intergovernmental commission.

Two identical dark document folders on a table, one tied shut with an amber cord and one open and empty.

The readout is stamped 23:30 on Friday and carries a modification stamp of 18:14 on Sunday. President Serdar Berdymukhamedov chaired the sitting โ€œby the digital systemโ€, the site's standing phrase for a video conference.

By the government's count the state visit to Korea of 14 to 16 September produced 44 signed documents and 31 meetings by members of the delegation.

Last week's lists were shorter: 13 documents on the state site on 15 September and 16 more named by Trend the next day, from the Turkmenbashi refinery to the Balkan shipyard. The business-forum post put 17 projects at more than $12 billion. The new total comes with no list and no sum.

On Russia, a deputy chairman of the Cabinet reported on preparations for the 14th session of the intergovernmental commission on economic cooperation, to be held in Moscow. The agenda runs from trade and fuel and energy to banking, customs, transport and digital technology. Neither of the site's 2 posts on the subject gives a date or a trade figure.

The sitting also took up housing for oil and gas workers: a complex for 720 households in Mary, of which the first phase is 256, 10 blocks of 4 storeys and 24 flats each in Balkanabat and one 12-storey block of 72 flats in Turkmenbashi. No cost or contractor is given.

The new total comes with no list and no sum.

Wheat sowing, the cotton harvest and the 35th anniversary of independence on 27 September filled the rest of the agenda.