Venezuelan President meets with President Ahmedinejad as part of regional tour.

Hugo Chavez, a proponent of a global gas suppliers' cartel, will visit Central Asia's main gas producer Turkmenistan on Sunday and Monday, Turkmen leader Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov said on Saturday.

The meeting of the two leaders will be "a good foundation for further development of mutually beneficial long-term cooperation," Berdymukhamedov said on state television.

He did not outline the agenda of the meeting but a Turkmen government source told Reuters he expected energy cooperation issues to come up.