The Executive Committee for preparation of the 5th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games was informed about this. In the Ashgabat Asian Games, a refugee guide will be a delegation head Tegla Lurup – the Olympic champion of Kenya, who is also the Ambassador for the UN project “Sport and Peace”. In the spirit of Olympic solidarity, united under the peacekeeping banner of sport, the Refugee Team will be one of 65 participating delegations of the largest International competitions in the history of...

Tickets for the upcoming Ashgabat 2017 5th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games will go on sale across the country on Saturday 29 July. With more than 700,000 tickets available for more than 220 sessions, spectators will be able to watch the best athletes from Asia and Oceania compete over 12 days of competition and across 21 sports. All session, including preliminary rounds and medal events, can be found on the Sport Competition Schedule, which the public can reference to choose the events th...

On July 21, 2017, the Embassy of Turkmenistan in Bucharest, in collaboration with the Diplomatic Institute of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania, organized a round table in the conference hall of the institute entitled "Turkmenistan and Romania: 25 Years of Friendship and Cooperation", dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries. The event was attended by the State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania Alex...

On April 27, 2017, the VII session of the International Ahalteke Horse Association started in Ashgabat, under the chairmanship of President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov. The forum was attended by members of the government, foreign and domestic members of the International Ahalteke Horse Association, workers in the horse breeding industry of the country, representatives of the media. During the meeting, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov presented state awards of Turkmenistan to a number of f...

At the meeting of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, Turkmenistan was elected to the Executive Board of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Commission on the Status of Women for 2018-2022. To date, Turkmenistan is a member of eight commissions, committees and councils of the United Nations, the country was elected five times to be the vice-chairman of the UN General Assembly.

On April 21, 2017 a seminar on Turkmenistan – European Union relations took place in Ashgabat. The event was organized by the European Union Special Representative for Central Asia Ambassador Peter Burian, European Union Liaison Office in Turkmenistan and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan. Members of the Mejlis of Turkmenistan, representatives of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Finance, Economy and Development, Justice, Central Bank and State Bank of Foreign Economic Activiti...

“Garlyk” mining and processing plant for the production of potassium fertilizers will be inagurated in Turkmenistanon March 31, 2017. Equipped with the most advanced technologies, this plant will become the flagship of the Turkmen chemical industry and the largest industrial-production complex in the Asian continent. The fact that its construction on one of the largest deposits of potassium salts in the world clearly indicates that Turkmenistan will obtain  one of the leading positions in the...