On March 21-22, 2019, the Regional Forum on Sustainable Development held its work at the Geneva International Conference Center, in which high-level delegations from countries of the ECE region took part. Turkmenistan was represented at the forum by a delegation headed by the Deputy Minister of Finance and Economy of Turkmenistan. The opening ceremony, chaired by the Minister of Health and Social Protection of Albania, Ms. O. Manastirlyu, was attended by Under-Secretary-General of the UN,...

Turkmenistan celebrated the International Day of Novruz, the National Spring Holiday, on a large scale, the main celebrations in honor of which were unfolded in the Novruz Valley in Ahal velayat, where the building was erected in the form of a huge yurt - “Türkmeniň ak öýi”. Here, with the participation of President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, the next stage of the implementation of a large-scale landscaping program was launched. Among the guests invited to the event were representatives of th...

On March 14-15, 2019, delegation of Turkmenistan took part in the work of the 62nd regular session of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) in Vienna, Austria. The main topic of the Commission’s agenda was the fight against illicit trafficking in narcotic drugs and their precursors. The participants of the session paid attention to the issues of further strengthening the international drug control system (ISCO), compliance with the UN anti-drug conventions, and objectives o...

On March 4, 2019, a meeting was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan with the delegation of the European Union headed by Mr. Christian Berger, Head of the EU delegation in Turkmenistan (with residence in Ankara), who arrived in Turkmenistan on a working visit. During the meeting, the sides noted a significant strengthening of bilateral relations between Turkmenistan and the European Union. Also, the heads of delegations stressed the positive development of cooperation of Tu...

On the 3rd of March, 2019, a meeting of the students and faculty members with the Managing Director of the International Ocean Institute Ms.Vassalo Antonella and Advisor to the Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO Mr. Yuriy Olyunin was held at the Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan. The guests gave lectures to the students on the themes “International Ocean Institute and Capacity Development in Oce...

On March 3, 2019, a meeting of delegations of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan and Georgia headed by the Ministers  of Foreign Affairs agencies of the two countries was held in Bucharest. During the meeting, the sides exchanged views on the further development of bilateral cooperation. The foreign ministers stressed the high level of political and diplomatic cooperation between Turkmenistan and Georgia, noting that the main factor in strengthening friendship and cooperatio...

From the 28th of February till the 1st of March 2019, the delegation of the Republic of Korea headed by the Director-General of Global Healthcare of the Ministry of Healthcare and Welfare of the Republic of Korea Ms. Kim Hye-seon was in Turkmenistan on a working visit.  During the visit, a meeting was held at the Ministry of Health Protection and Medical Industry of Turkmenistan, where issues of bilateral cooperation between Turkmenistan and the Republic of Korea in the area of healthcare had...