Russia delivers 2 missile boats for Turkmenistan Navy.

ASHGABAT, October 10 (Itar-Tass) -- Turkmen President Gurbanguly
Berdymukhamedov visited a mooring of a Turkmen naval unit, where two newly
built missile boats had recently anchored. The missile boats are built at
the Sredne-Nevsky shipbuilding plant within Russian-Turkmen
military-technical cooperation. The president visited the missile boats.
The visit was broadcast on the national television.
"Turkmenistan as any country with the entry to the sea needs the
warships for patrolling its maritime border, ensuring security and
combating terrorism, poaching and drug trafficking," the president told
naval sailors. "The Caspian Sea will always be the sea of friendship and
accord, which Turkmenistan's policy of neutrality, openness and good
neighborliness pursues for," Berdymukhamedov pointed out.
President Berdymukhamedov stated about his decision to build a modern
naval fleet on the Caspian Sea in August 2009 at a meeting of the Turkmen
Security Council. The Naval Institute of the Turkmen Defence Ministry was
founded already in 2010. The program to develop the Navy for the period
until 2015 was developed and approved under the main provisions of the
Military Doctrine of Turkmenistan.
"The approval of this document heralds the beginning of important and
responsible work to form domestic naval forces in the Defence Ministry
that should protect the interests of our country in the Caspian Sea," the
president remarked on Sunday.
The Sunday event "points to the permanent upgrading of the domestic
fleet, which is systematically replenished with advanced military
hardware," the president underlined.