[caption id="attachment_108901" align="alignright" width="177"] Iran's President Hassan Rouhani is scheduled to travel to Turkmenistan on March 10.[/caption]

Tehran, March 2, IRNA - President Hassan Rouhani is scheduled to travel to Turkmenistan on March 10.

The visit is made upon official invitation of his Turkmen counterpart Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov.


Several Iranian ministers and representatives of private sector will accompany President Rouhani during his two-day visit.

While in Turkmenistan, President Rouhani is set to hold talks with his Turkmen counterpart and ink documents aimed at reinforcing mutual relations in the fields of politics, economy and culture.

One of the documents to be signed is 'exchange of prisoners protocol' for facilitating the exchange of inmates between the two countries.

Last week, ten Iranians who had been detained in Turkmenistan were released and returned to Iran.

Among those released were the four Iranian fishermen who were arrested by the Turkmen border guards in November last year after they mistakenly entered the country’s territorial waters due to stormy weather.

The release of Iranian detainees in Turkmenistan followed a suggestion by Iran in the course of the 11th Iran-Turkmenistan Joint Consular Commission session held in Ashgabat last month.

At present, the volume of trade transactions between Iran and Turkmenistan stands at $3.7 billion of which $1.35 million refers to non-oil export.

Turkmenistan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the northeast and east, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the south and southwest and the Caspian Sea to the west.

By IRNA