Membership in the World Trade Organization as a balance of rights and obligations is the topic of an OSCE-organized online seminar held in Ashgabat on 2 September 2020. The main goal of the seminar is to present the best practices of OSCE participating States in going through the WTO negotiation process and facilitate discussions on possible steps for further expansion of the national trade policy. The seminar brought together specialists of the Ministry of Trade and Foreign Economic Affai...

The progress in implementation of the Preparedness and Response Plan of Turkmenistan to Acute Infectious Disease (CPRP) was discussed during an online meeting. The videoconference meeting brought together representatives of the Mejlis, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the spheres of healthcare, finance, legal and social protection, education, agriculture and environmental protection, migration and customs services, transport departments, as well as the media, the Union of Industrialists and E...

In order to improve the procedure for drawing-up and issuing passports to citizens of Turkmenistan, their residence registration, termination of registration, in accordance with the Law "On Migration" and the Law "On internal affairs authority of Turkmenistan", the President of Turkmenistan signed the Decree, authorizing: 1. The internal affairs authority of Turkmenistan to ensure drawing-up and issuing passports to citizens of Turkmenistan, their residence registration, termination of regist...

Sowing of winter crops has started in Turkmenistan. The fields under crops will occuoy 690,000 hectares in the country, from which farmers will have to collect 1,400,000 tons of grain including 400,000 tons in Ahal, 345,000 tons in Mary, 310,000 tons on Lebap, 265,000 tons in Dashoguz and 80,000 tons in Balkan Region. Fulfilling the orders of the Head of the State, Turkmen farmers have thoroughly prepared to responsible campaign, having timely ploughed and fertilized the fields allocated for...

Agricultural scientific and production centre of Gubadag district, Dashoguz Region works on development of medium fiber species of cotton of Gubadag series. Seven new species, which were produced by crossbreeding of the best local and foreign species, are compared by indictors with Dashoguz 120 cotton, which is the most suitable for the region. High emergence and productivity in soil and climate conditions of Northern Turkmenistan as well as resistance to diseases are the main criteria of eva...

On September 3, 2020, a telephone conversation took place between President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella. At the beginning of the conversation, the Turkmen leader emphasized that he recalls with particular warmth his visit to Italy in November 2019, where, during the summit in Rome, topical issues of interaction in political-diplomatic, trade-economic, cultural-humanitarian and other areas had been discussed. President Gu...

President, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of Turkmenistan, Army General Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov held offsite session of the State Security Council. The agenda of the session included outcomes of work of military and law enforcement agencies of the country for eight months of the year. Early in the morning, the Head of the State has come to the place of the session of the State Security Council. Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers, Secretary of the State Security Council Ch. A...