On May 15, 2018 at the Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan there held the scientific conference and photo exhibition "The Great Silk Road: from Asia to Anatolia", organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan jointly with the Embassy of the Republic of Turkey in Turkmenistan in honor of the announcement of 2018 as the Year "Turkmenistan - the heart of the Great Silk Road". Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Re...

On 12-13 May 2018, the delegation of Turkmenistan headed by the Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers, Minister of Foreign Affairs R. Meredov paid a working visit to the Islamic Republic of Iran. Upon arrival in Tehran, the delegation of Turkmenistan had a meeting with the Minister of Roads and Urban Construction, the head of the Iranian part of the joint Turkmen-Iranian Intergovernmental Commission for Economic Cooperation, Abbas Ahmad Akhundi. The sides exchanged views on new directio...

On May 8, 2018, OSCE Human Dimension Committee meeting on "Gender Equality" took place in Vienna. The Ombudsman of Turkmenistan Y.Gurbannazarova attended this meeting and presented a report on the gender situation in the country. In her speech, Y.Gurbannazarova informed the meeting about the gender policy of Turkmenistan, equal participation of women in all spheres of socio-political, economic, social and cultural life of the country. In particular, she noted that within the framework of the...

On May 9-10, 2018, a Coordination Meeting of the Executive Committee of IFAS with international partners on development of programs related to solving the problems of the Aral Sea Basin took place in the conference hall of the hotel "Archabil" in Ashgabat. The main goal of the meeting was to discuss new forms of cooperation between EC IFAS and international partners on development, as well as to establish contacts and intensify the interaction aimed at solving the problems of the Aral Sea Bas...

Within the framework of the 30th session of the Working Group of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), held in May 2018 in Geneva, Switzerland, the delegation of Turkmenistan, headed by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan V. S. Khadzhiev, took part on May 7, 2018 at the 3rd review of Turkmenistan. In the course of the above-mentioned event, the Turkmen side made a presentation on the main directions of Turkmenistan's policy to implement the commitments undertaken in the fiel...

The first issue of the quarterly, scientific-practical magazine "Foreign Policy and Diplomacy of Turkmenistan" prepared by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan has been published this month. The magazine is opened by an article dedicated to one of the main events of 2018 - solemn ceremonies on the occasion of the start of the construction on February 23, 2018 in the Serhetabat district of the Mary province and in the Afghan city of Herat, the Afghan section of the Turkmenistan-Afgh...

On May 4, 2018, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan there was a meeting with the Director of the UNESCO Cluster Office in Tehran, Ms. Esther Kuisch Laroche, who arrived in Ashgabat on a working visit to participate in the inauguration of the new International Seaport. During the talks, the sides exchanged views on perspective areas of partnership, identifying among them the scientific, educational and cultural sphere, cooperation in the preservation of historical and architectu...