05.15.19.
The president of Russia Vladimir Putin and the president of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov stressed the importance of developing humanitarian cooperation in the Commonwealth of Independent States at the opening ceremony of the XIV Forum of CIS Creative and Scientific Intelligentsia in Ashgabat.
Vladimir Putin said:"Humanitarian cooperation has traditionally been one of the most important areas of partnership in the Commonwealth," reports TASS .
Putin expressed confidence that "the work of the forum will further enhance the integration processes in the Commonwealth space". For his part, Berdymukhamedov noted that the successes achieved by countries in the fields of culture, art, literature and science serve to strengthen the relations of friendship and fraternity. And the output of friendly relations to a new level is the duty of creative and scientific figures.
More than 200 representatives of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine and Russia arrived in Ashgabat the day before to discuss development of cooperation in the humanitarian fields.The topic of the current forum is “Common humanitarian space of the Commonwealth: dialogue in the sphere of culture, science, education”.
The program of the congress included the ceremony of awarding the winners of the main CIS intergovernmental award "Stars of the Commonwealth", the presentation of the Kazakh city of Shymkent, which in 2020 was declared the cultural capital of the Commonwealth.
