On April 23-24, 2018, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan hosted the third meeting of authorized representatives of the Caspian littoral countries to discuss the draft Agreement on cooperation between the Caspian states in the field of transport in the Caspian Sea. Representatives of the relevant ministries and departments of Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Russia and Kazakhstan took part in the meeting. During the meeting, a productive exchange of views and discussion of expert a...

On April 23, 2018, President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov left for a two-day state visit to the Republic of Uzbekistan. At the international airport of Ashgabat, the head of state was seen off by the officials. Having completed the flight to Tashkent, the presidential airliner landed at the Islam Karimov International Airport decorated with the National Flags of the two countries. In honor of the arrival of a high Turkmen guest on both sides of the carpet path leading from the ai...

Within the framework of the month of sports events under the motto «Health and Happiness", held annually in the country, it has become a tradition to organize sports tournaments in various sports with the participation of the teams of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and diplomatic missions accredited in Ashgabat. This year dozens of representatives and teams competed in such sports as table tennis, chess, volleyball and mini-football. Competitions on table tennis took place in the sports c...

On April 20, 2018, the sports complex of the Central University of Nationalities of the People's Republic of China hosted a sports festival under the slogan "Health and Happiness", with the participation of the staff of the Embassy of Turkmenistan, teachers, as well as Turkmen and Chinese students studying in the universities of Beijing. The sports festival was organized by the Embassy of Turkmenistan in China together with the Central University of Nationalities of the Chinese capital in the...

On April 19, 2018, a conference was held at the Byelorussian State Medical University dedicated to the scientific works of the President of Turkmenistan in the field of studying medicinal plants and natural riches of the resorts of Turkmenistan described in the scientific encyclopaedic work of the head of state "Medicinal Plants of Turkmenistan". The conference was attended by the members of the delegation of Turkmenistan, leaders, teachers and students of the Byelorussian State Medical Unive...

The first in Central Asia interagency consultative meeting was held in Ashgabat on the development of the Regional Program for the Protection of the Environment for Sustainable Development. The organizers of the event are ICSD IFAS, the State Committee for Environmental Protection and Land Resources with the support of the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ). The meeting was attended by representatives of ministries and departments, which formed the national working group on th...

The development of a road map on solar energy in Turkmenistan was the focus of an OSCE-supported discussion in Ashgabat on 17 April 2018 for officials from the Ministry of Energy, the Ministry of Finance and Economy, the Institute of Solar Energy of the Academy of Science of Turkmenistan, the State Committee for Environment Protection and Land Resources, professors from the Mary Turkmen State Energy Institute and representatives of other relevant institutions and nature protection public organiz...