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President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday said that the Chabahar port built by India in Iran could be used to improve trade relations between India and the Central Asian countries.

As per the Turkmen tradition, the President was offered bread and salt by children at the airport, the Presidents official Twitter account tweeted.The state visit of the president will reaffirm the importance we attach to Turkmenistan, not only bilaterally but also in terms of our extended neighbourhood concept and role in India-Central Asia partnership, Sanjay Verma, Secretary West in the MEA, told reporters in New Delhi on Wednesday.Turkmenistan possesses very large reserves of natural gas.

President Ram Nath Kovind will be on an official visit to Turkmenistan from April 1 to 4 and this visit will be just after the inauguration of the new President of Turkmenistan, said MEA's joint secretary, in charge of the BIMSTEC and south Asian region, Rudrendra Tandon on Wednesday.

President Ram Nath Kovind on Sunday said that untouchability based on caste and religion was abolished by Article 17 of the Constitution, but the centuries-old untouchability towards people afflicted by leprosy has not been completely eradicated even today, said a press release by the President's Secretariat.