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Created
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09ASHGABAT1427
2009-11-06 13:47:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Ashgabat
Cable title:
SEPTEMBER 29 VISIT OF ST. PERSBURG GOVERNOR
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C O N F I D E N T I A L ASHGABAT 001427
SIPDIS
STATE FOR SCA/CEN
E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/06/2019
TAGS: PREL ECON ETRD TX RS
SUBJECT: SEPTEMBER 29 VISIT OF ST. PERSBURG GOVERNOR
VALENTINA MATVIYENKO TO TURKMENISTAN
Classified By: Charge Sylvia Reed Curran for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).
C O N F I D E N T I A L ASHGABAT 001427
SIPDIS
STATE FOR SCA/CEN
E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/06/2019
TAGS: PREL ECON ETRD TX RS
SUBJECT: SEPTEMBER 29 VISIT OF ST. PERSBURG GOVERNOR
VALENTINA MATVIYENKO TO TURKMENISTAN
Classified By: Charge Sylvia Reed Curran for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).
1. (C) Russian Embassy DCM Aleksey Demin briefed us November
5 on the September 29 visit of St. Petersburg Governor
Valentina Matviyenko. According to Demin, two construction
contracts totaling $700 million were signed. One was for
building bridges, roads,and highways in Ashgabat and Ahal
province. The other was for road construction in Avaza. The
two sides also agreed to open trade representations -- a
Turkmen one in St. Petersburg and a St. Pete one in Ashgabat.
They also agreed that Turkmenistan would send students for
specialist training in St. Petersburg. Lastly, the two sides
agreed to prepare new agreements and protocols on bilateral
cooperation.
2. (U) These new contracts build on an already well-developed
relationship between St. Petersburg and Turkmenistan,
according to the Turkmen state-run newspaper Neytralniy
Turkmenistan. An article on September 30 cited previous
successful projects by power generation companies Silovaya
Mashina and Yarovit Energo as examples. The article also
announced that St. Petersburg companies would invest in
projects in the Avaza tourist zone.
3. (C) COMMENT: That Turkmen President Berdimhamedov would be
willing to meet with a governor of a city shows the breadth
and depth of the Russian relationship with Turkmenistan. The
Russians also appear to be savvy in handling the Turkmen.
They are willing to invest in Avaza, Berdimhamedov's pet
projet, and they are willing to sign business deals under
that auspices of bilateral agreements. Their efforts have
been rewarded with the contracts they signed, and with the
great attention Matviyenko's visit got, including almost two
pages of coverage in a four-page newspaper. END COMMENT.
CURRAN
SIPDIS
STATE FOR SCA/CEN
E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/06/2019
TAGS: PREL ECON ETRD TX RS
SUBJECT: SEPTEMBER 29 VISIT OF ST. PERSBURG GOVERNOR
VALENTINA MATVIYENKO TO TURKMENISTAN
Classified By: Charge Sylvia Reed Curran for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).
1. (C) Russian Embassy DCM Aleksey Demin briefed us November
5 on the September 29 visit of St. Petersburg Governor
Valentina Matviyenko. According to Demin, two construction
contracts totaling $700 million were signed. One was for
building bridges, roads,and highways in Ashgabat and Ahal
province. The other was for road construction in Avaza. The
two sides also agreed to open trade representations -- a
Turkmen one in St. Petersburg and a St. Pete one in Ashgabat.
They also agreed that Turkmenistan would send students for
specialist training in St. Petersburg. Lastly, the two sides
agreed to prepare new agreements and protocols on bilateral
cooperation.
2. (U) These new contracts build on an already well-developed
relationship between St. Petersburg and Turkmenistan,
according to the Turkmen state-run newspaper Neytralniy
Turkmenistan. An article on September 30 cited previous
successful projects by power generation companies Silovaya
Mashina and Yarovit Energo as examples. The article also
announced that St. Petersburg companies would invest in
projects in the Avaza tourist zone.
3. (C) COMMENT: That Turkmen President Berdimhamedov would be
willing to meet with a governor of a city shows the breadth
and depth of the Russian relationship with Turkmenistan. The
Russians also appear to be savvy in handling the Turkmen.
They are willing to invest in Avaza, Berdimhamedov's pet
projet, and they are willing to sign business deals under
that auspices of bilateral agreements. Their efforts have
been rewarded with the contracts they signed, and with the
great attention Matviyenko's visit got, including almost two
pages of coverage in a four-page newspaper. END COMMENT.
CURRAN