On December 11, 2023, a meeting was held between the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov and the Director of the UNESCO Regional Office in Almaty Amir Pirich, who arrived in Ashgabat to participate in the international conference “Dialogue - a guarantee of peace.” During the meeting, the parties reviewed the state of cooperation in the implementation of projects in the fields of education, science, culture, sports, digitalization, preservation of historical and architec...

On December 10, 2023, a meeting was held between the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov and the Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, Deputy Administrator of the United Nations Development Program and Director of the UNDP Regional Bureau for Europe and the CIS Ivana Zivkovic, who is in Ashgabat to participate in the international conference “Dialogue - a guarantee of peace” . During the negotiations, the strategic nature of cooperation between Turkmenistan...

On December 10, 2023, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov met with FAO's Subregional Coordinator for Central Asia Viorel Gutu, who arrived in Ashgabat to participate in the international conference “Dialogue - a guarantee of peace”, dedicated to the International Day of Neutrality and the 28th anniversary of the permanent neutrality of Turkmenistan. A wide range of issues of food and environmental security, rational environmental management, as well as joint work in...

On December 6, 2023, President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov received the Vice President of the Republic of Türkiye, Cevdet Yilmaz, co-chairman of the Intergovernmental Turkmen-Turkish Commission on Economic Cooperation, who arrived in Turkmenistan at the head of his country’s delegation to participate in the seventh meeting of the Commission. Having warmly welcomed the Vice-President of a friendly country to the hospitable Turkmen soil, President Serdar Berdimuhamedov wished the succ...

On December 6, 2023, the 7th meeting of the Intergovernmental Turkmen-Turkish Commission on Economic Cooperation was held in Ashgabat. At the meeting, the delegation of Turkmenistan was headed by Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan Batyr Atdayev, the Turkish delegation was headed by Vice-President of the Republic of Türkiye Cevdet Yilmaz. During the meeting, the heads of leading ministries and departments of Turkmenistan and their Turkish partners got acquainted wit...

On December 7, 2023, a meeting was held between the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan M.Byashimova and the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Austria to Turkmenistan (with residence in Baku) Thomas Schuller-Götzburg and the head of the Turkmen-Austrian Society Neda Berger, who arrived in Ashgabat on a working visit . During the meeting, an interested exchange of views took place on the state of Turkmen-Austrian cooperation in the political-diploma...

During the meeting of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) on December 5, 2023, Turkmenistan was unanimously elected to the Commission on Population and Development for the term 2024-2028. With strong support from the Council’s members, Turkmenistan now extends its membership in the Commission for the next consecutive period continuing its terms of 2016-2020 and 2020-2024. As one of ECOSOC's ten functional commissions, the Commission on Population and Development (CPD) a...