Turkmenistan, Iran and Kazakhstan have reached a preliminary agreement to establish a joint digital corridor linking Central Asian countries with the Persian Gulf and neighboring states, Iran’s IRNA news agency reported Tuesday.
The agreement was reached during a trilateral meeting involving Turkmenistan’s Minister of Communications Hajymyrat Hudaygulyyev, Iran’s Minister of Information and Communications Technology Seyed Sattar Hashemi, and Kazakhstan’s Vice Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development Doszhan Musaliyev. The meeting took place on the sidelines of the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) PP-26 Plenipotentiary Conference in Doha.
Under the preliminary agreement, details of the cooperation will be discussed in subsequent negotiations. A final agreement is expected to be signed in the near future, IRNA reported.
According to the Embassy of Turkmenistan in Qatar, a Turkmen delegation led by Communications Minister Hajymyrat Hudaygulyyev is in Doha to attend the ITU PP-26 conference, which runs from Nov. 9 to 27. On the sidelines of the forum, Hudaygulyyev held meetings with ITU Secretary-General Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Qatar’s Cybersecurity Agency chief Abdulrahman bin Ali Al-Farahid Al-Malki, and Qatar’s Minister of Communications and Information Technology Mohammed bin Ali bin Mohammed Al Mannai.
