The Ministry of Finance and Economy of Turkmenistan hosted the ceremony of signing the Memorandum of Understanding on strategic partnership between the Ministry and Swiss company "SICPA SA" - a world leader in the field of marking with protected characters. The document aims to promote the development of the digital economy in Turkmenistan, which was identified by President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov as a priority task. Expanding the use of various electronic systems and information networks,...

A consultation meeting to discuss the Country programme of cooperation between Turkmenistan and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) for 2021-2025 was held in the building of the United Nations Office in Turkmenistan. Head of the United Nations Children's Fund office in Turkmenistan Ms. Christine Weigand, the representatives of the national parliament, ministries and departments, public organizations and young people attended the event. The meeting participants were familiarized wit...

On January 30, 2020, the second working session on the discussion of the results in the framework of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development assessment “Improving the Legal Environment for Business in Central Asia: Focus on Turkmenistan” took place in the “Yildiz” hotel of the capital. From the Turkmen side, the representatives of a number of ministries and departments of the country, Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, as well as the...

On January 30, 2020, the second meeting of the authorized representatives of the Caspian states on the discussion of the project of the Agreement between the Governments of the Caspian States on Cooperation in Conducting Search and Rescue Operations in the Caspian Sea has started in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan. The experts of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Republic of Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation and Turkmenistan, including the specialists...

Structures of the People’s Council as a representative chamber of National Council, which composition is 56 people, has been reviewed at the session of the Constitution Commission of Turkmenistan. “It is necessary to point out in the Main Law that equal number, namely eight people, are elected from each velayat and Ashgabat to the People’s Council by secret voting at relative sessions of the People’s Councils of the velayats and Ashgabat for provision of interests of the state and society”, -...

The latest issue of the scientific practical journal ‘Foreign Policy and Diplomacy’ has just come out. It spotlights the most important events in the country’s foreign policy in the fourth quarter of last year. The journal opens with a speech delivered by President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov at a meeting of the CIS Council of Heads of State in Ashgabat on October 11, 2019. The head of state highlighted that with the chairmanship of the CIS in 2019 Turkmenistan’s main objectives were to prov...

The Centre of Public Health and Nutrition of the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Service, an innovative facility, which activity is aimed at scientific researches in the sphere of impact of social and biological factors on the health of the population in general, development of eco-friendly food technologies and standards of healthy nutrition, has been working for more than three years in Ashgabat. This medical facility is provided with the most modern laboratory and medical equipment, whi...