On the 22nd of July 2019, a meeting was held in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan with the delegation of the Republic of Argentine headed by the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Argentine in Turkmenistan (with the residence in Moscow) Ricardo Ernesto Lagorio who has arrived to Ashgabat on a working visit.   During the meeting, the parties discussed the current state of Turkmen-Argentine relations, particularly in political-diplomatic, as well as trade-economic sph...

Turkmenistan’s achievements in immunization have received high recognition by UNICEF. On the 29th of July, 2019, at the international health conference, UNICEF Representative in Turkmenistan Ms. Christine Weigand presented an award letter to the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry for sustaining high immunization rates through the government-financed National Immunization Programme.   “We congratulate Turkmenistan on this milestone. We look forward to continuing our long-standing and frui...

An important outcome of the first day of the international forum "Health-2019" was the signing of memorandums and cooperation agreements between the Ministry of Health and the Medical Industry of Turkmenistan and the relevant institutions of the Russian Federation and Israel. Thus, a Memorandum of Understanding was concluded between the International Educational and Scientific Center, the Scientific and Clinical Center for the Health of Mother and the Child, and the Scientific and Clinical On...

On July 20, 2019, the International Exhibition “Health 2019” opened at the Expocenter of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Turkmenistan, within the framework of which a scientific conference on the development of the medical sphere is held. The opening ceremony of the forum began with performances by creative groups that gave a festive mood to the event. Heads of the ministries and sectoral departments of Turkmenistan, representatives of international organizations, the media and foreig...

On 19 July 2019, the 29th meeting of the Council on Healthcare Cooperation of the Commonwealth of Independent States was held in the “Archabil” Hotel of Ashgabat. The heads and representatives of the ministries and profile agencies working in the healthcare sphere of the CIS member states, as well as the specialists of the WHO European Regional Office, structural agencies of the UN and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent participated at the meeting. In the beginning...

On 18 July 2019, during the High-Level Political Forum held in the United Nations Headquarters, the delegation of Turkmenistan presented to the community of nations its Voluntary National Review on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. This is the first National Review presented by Turkmenistan in New York as the member of the United Nations Economic and Social Council.  Presenting at the high-level conference chaired by the President of ECOSOC, the delegation of Turkmenist...

During the period of 17-18 July 2019, the 21st Central Asian Media Conference named “Media freedom and Pluralism in Times of Digital Transformation” was held in the capital of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek city and was organized by the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media. The Conference embraced more than 100 participants from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Mongolia representing the state agencies, mass media, civil society and scientific groups with the aim of...