On June 13, 2019 there was a ceremony in Paris of presenting the accreditation letter to the Director-General of the United Nation Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Ms. Audrey Azoulay by the Ambassador of Turkmenistan S.Jumaev, accrediting him as the Permanent Representative of Turkmenistan to the UNESCO. After the presentation ceremony there was a short meeting of Ambassador S.Jumaev with the Director-General of the UNESCO. Ambassador of Turkmenistan passed to Ms. Au...

On 12 June 2019, the Embassy of Turkmenistan in the Republic of Azerbaijan, together with the Center for the Study of International Relations of Azerbaijan, held a round table discussion on the first Caspian Economic Forum, which will be held on 12 August this year in the Avaza National Tourist Zone. The event was attended by the heads and employees of diplomatic missions accredited in Baku, deputies, representatives of financial, economic and investment organizations, experts, scholars and T...

On June 12, 2019, the President of Turkmenistan held a meeting in honor of the Day of Science in the building of the Academy of Sciences of the country. The meeting was attended by members of the Cabinet of Ministers, leaders of the Mejlis, representatives of the ministries and departments, administrations of the city of Ashgabat and velayats, public organizations, media representatives, scientists and professors, teachers of the higher educational institutions. At the beginning of the mee...

On the 12th of June 2019, the International scientific conference “Science, technology and innovative technologies in an Epoch of power and happiness” dedicated to the annually, widely celebrated Day of Science of Turkmenistan was held at the Engineering-technology University named after Oguz Khan.    The representatives of the ministries, profile departments, Academy of Sciences, foreign scientists and specialists, professors and students of the higher educational institutions, as well as th...

On the 10th of June 2019, the 108th Session of the International Labour Conference has started in the Palace of Nations in Geneva. During the plenary session, the addresses of more than 40 heads of states and governments of the ILO Member States are awaited.  During the plenary session, the delegation of Turkmenistan headed by the Minister of Labour and Social Protection of Population will give a speech highlighting the main achievements of the country for the past 25 years of Turkmenistan’s...

An OSCE-supported seminar on best practices in anti-money laundering (AML) and countering the financing of terrorism (CFT) in the sector of designated non-financial businesses and professions (DNFBP) took place in Ashgabat from 10 to 11 June 2019. The event was organized by the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat, jointly with the Ministry of Finance and Economy of Turkmenistan and its Financial Monitoring Service. The aim of the seminar was to enhance the participants’ understanding of international...

On 5-6 June 2019 the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat organized a seminar on the topic “Funding models for television in the 21st century.” The seminar was delivered by international experts from the United Kingdom and Ukraine who presented fundamental principles of public service broadcasting and traditional funding models for state, commercial and public service television. Representatives of Turkmenistan’s State Committee for TV, Radiobroadcasting and Cinematography, the Mejlis (the parliament), th...