Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov met here today with German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle. During the meeting, they discussed the security in the region and the mutual economic cooperation, in addition to the plans of establishing the gas pipeline \"Nabucco\" and the situation in neighboring Afghanistan. The \"Nabucco\" project aims to transport natural gas from Asia to Europe in order to reduce the continent\'s dependence on the Russian gas. The cost of the project, to be completed by 2017, estimated at about 8 billion euros.