An informational meeting was held on January 20, 2019 at the headquarters of the World Health Organization in Geneva in the light of the 144th session of the WHO Executive Board, chaired by the Regional Director of the WHO Regional Office for Europe Ms. Zsuzsanna Jakab. The meeting was attended by the delegations of the member countries, representatives of international organizations, as well as ambassadors, Permanent representatives accredited in Geneva. Participants discussed issues of part...

On January 16, 2019, a meeting and signing ceremony of a number of documents between the state institutions of Turkmenistan and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) took place at the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry. The event was attended by the leaders and representatives of the Ministries of Health and the medical industry, Education, the Academy of Public Administration under the President of Turkmenistan and UNFPA. As noted, today our country and the United Nations Popula...

On January 16, 2019, a meeting was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan with a delegation that arrived in Ashgabat on a working visit headed by the Secretary General of the World Customs Organization Mr. Kunio Mikuriya. At the beginning of the meeting, the Turkmen side congratulated the Secretary General on the upcoming International Customs Day, as well as on the re-election of Kunio Mikuriya to the post of Secretary General, which he has been occupying since January 2009....

On January 12-13, 2019, the first meeting of “Central Asia-India” Dialogue at the level of foreign ministers was held in Samarkand (the Republic of Uzbekistan). The heads of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, India, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan participated at the meeting. The opportunities for further strengthening mutually beneficial cooperation in trade-economic, cultural-humanitarian and other important spheres were discussed.      ...

On January 11, 2019, a briefing was held in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan in the framework of prepartation to the second International Conference on the “Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases” to be held on April 9-10, 2019 in Ashgabat, based on the Decree of the President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov. The meeting was attended by the heads of the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, as well as the...

On 8 January 2019, the International exhibition “Heimtextil 2019” has started in Frankfurt am Main of the Federal Republic of Germany. Over 3000 companies and organizations from 60 states across the world are participating to this international exhibition aimed at exposing the countries’ achievements in the textile industry. The delegation of the Ministry of the Textile Industry and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Turkmenistan has participated to this exhibition where the textile p...

A Russian cosmonaut, a native of Turkmenistan, Oleg Kononenko, who is on the International Space Station now, sent a photo from space, where he was captured with the book of the President of Turkmenistan “Turkmenistan is the heart of the Great Silk Road”. Oleg Kononenko always notes that he has special feelings for our country, he is proud of his belonging to Turkmenistan, and sincerely enjoys its achievements. It is not by chance that in his new mission on the International Space Station, wh...