On October 13, 2017, at the Institute for International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan took part the Academic Forum held within the framework of the VII Ministerial Conference on Regional Economic Cooperation for Afghanistan (RECCA). Representatives of relevant ministries and departments, employees of the diplomatic service of Turkmenistan, as well as heads of higher educational institutions of Turkmenistan and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Director of Int...

On 11 October, 2017 President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov arrived to Sochi on a working visit to take part in a meeting of the CIS Council of the Heads of State. As an associated member of the Commonwealth of Independent States, our country actively participates in CIS affairs, promoting the development of fruitful cooperation in a wide range of areas both in bilateral and multilateral formats. In frames of preparation for the Summit on October 10 in Sochi hosted a meeting of...

Representatives of ministries dealing with transport logistics, finance institutions, the State Customs and State Border Services, the Union of Entrepreneurs and Industrialists, and other state bodies participated in an OSCE-organized seminar on facilitating the development of secure national transport and trade infrastructures that took place in Ashgabat on 10 and 11 October 2017. The OSCE Centre in Ashgabat organized the two-day seminar to enhance the participants’ awareness about internati...

The delegation of Turkmenistan headed by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan V.Hadjiev took part in the 68th session of the Executive Committee of the Program of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, held in Geneva, Switzerland, on October 2-6, 2017. On October 3, 2017, the head of the Turkmen delegation delivered a speech in which it was pointed out that the world community needed to strengthen its work on resolving the pressing issues of the global agenda rel...

On September 25, 2017, the Permanent Representative of Turkmenistan to the UN, Ambassador A.Ataeva, in the course of general political debates of the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly, spoke on behalf of the delegation of Turkmenistan. The delegation of our country said that the Government of Turkmenistan strongly condemns terrorism in all its forms and manifestations and recognizes that the prevention of terrorism is one of the most important components of ensuring national, regional a...

The developed sports infrastructure and huge attention which is given by President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov to the sports sphere - the major resource of public progress, became an important condition which has caused the choice of Turkmenistan as a venue for the 5th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games. Thanks to the large scale work, today our capital has unique sports objects in region answering to the international standards and allowing organizing competitions at the highest level. Besides i...

More than 500 foreign journalists work in these days in Turkmenistan, promptly covering the course of the V Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games. For the representatives of the foreign press in the Media Center of the Olympic town all conditions for fruitful and efficient work were created. At the disposal of the accredited journalists at the competitions - the best modern technology, they are provided with a connection with the editions of their media and comfortable working premises. The Cen...