ASHGABAT HOLDS FIRST EVER INTERNATIONAL SPECIALIZED PUBLISHING EXHIBITION
TURKMENISTAN.RU
12.09.06 15:00
As the Ashgabat correspondent of Turkmenistan.ru reports, nearly 30
publishing houses and printing centers, biggest printing houses and
polygraphic companies, newspaper and magazine editorials from 16
countries of the Eurasian continent are participating in it.
The publications of various types and new books published by the
leading printing houses of Central Asia, Great Britain, Armenia,
Belarus, Germany, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, China and other countries
are exhibited in the Exhibition Palace of Ashgabat. The technological
stands, at which polygraphs may carry out post printing processing
of production demonstrating all subtleties of their work, attracted
special interest of visitors.
During the exhibition, presentations of the printing products of
different publishing houses and book shops are being held. Writers,
poets, historians, literary critics and journalists from European and
Asian countries invited to the Turkmen capital will talk about the
most common trends of development of the modern printing industry at
their meetings.
Turkmenistan’s printing production is widely displayed too. Most of
the production is published on paper turned out by Yashlyk Pulp and
Paper Complex. The country’s central Publishing center and regional
printing centers represent the publishing service of the state. There
is also big diversity of production represented by private publishers.
A special exposition displayed on the occasion of the fifth anniversary
of releasing Rukhnama book by President Saparmurat Niyazov tells about
the traditions of the ancient Turkmen people, cultural and spiritual
revival of the nation after the country gained independence.
As the State News Service (TDH) reports, the head of Turkmenistan
congratulated the organizers, participants and guests of the
international exhibition of polygraphic production on convening
the event. In his address the President stressed that the radical
transformation has taken place in the publishing system of the country
in the years of independence reaching high levels in the short time.
According to the Turkmen leader, from the first days of independence
the decision to comprehensively develop publishing service and set up
national paper production industry was taken. The production of the
operating Pulp and Paper Production Complex boasts high quality and
meets the world standards. It is able to satisfy demands of consumers
of not only Turkmenistan and the whole region.
"The technological peculiarity of this complex is that paper is
produced from local raw materials – cotton lint mixed with wheat straw,
the President said. As far as quality is concerned, paper produced
in our complex can compete at any international contest".
In previous years the reconstruction and modernization of the country’s
Publishing Center, Ashgabat and provincial printing houses were
carried out. They were equipped with the state-of-the-art printing
equipment and modern technology.
Saparmurat Niyazov expressed confidence in the exhibition’s success
set to promote further development of the publishing industry in
the country.