Rashid Meredov and Stiprais exchanged views on Turkmen-European cooperation and its further directions, the ministry’s readout of 14 October says, with particular attention to political and diplomatic contacts, to the bilateral and regional mechanisms already in place and to trade and economic cooperation. Transport, energy, environmental protection and professional training were on the table too, and the two confirmed an interest in regular contacts.
The readout names no document and no figure. The training line connects to the meeting Stiprais came for: deputy ministers and senior officials of education and labour from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan gathered in Ashgabat on 13 and 14 October for the fifth High-Level Group of DARYA, the EU-funded programme on skills, by the organisers’ announcement carried by News Central Asia.
Transport, energy, environmental protection and professional training were on the table too, and the two confirmed an interest in regular contacts.
DARYA is a 10 million euro programme implemented by the European Training Foundation, the announcement says, and the group was to consider a draft Regional Skills Roadmap, a voluntary, country-led framework, with transport and logistics as a possible first sector. The ETF is to map skills needs in transport and logistics across Central Asia from November 2026 through 2027, the same text says.
Inside the EU’s Global Gateway offer to the region, the announcement puts the Trans-Caspian Transport Corridor at the centre of it: European and international financial institutions have committed to mobilise 10 billion euros for the corridor, and the platform coordinating investment along the route was launched in Ashgabat in October 2024.
The foreign ministry’s own item on the group’s opening is dated 13 October. What the group adopted, and whether the roadmap was approved, appears on neither the ministry’s page nor the portal by Thursday morning.