Josep Borrell Fontelles, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/ Vice-President of the European Commission (HR/VP) ​ On 28 January 2020, friends from Central Asia, Afghanistan and the European Union will gather in Berlin for a conference organised by the German Foreign Ministry, entitled “Green Central Asia.” I was glad to accept the invitation and join Foreign Ministers from the region, for two main reasons: First, to underline how urgent the challenge of tackling...

On January 27, 2020, the sixth meeting of authorized representatives of the Caspian littoral states for discussing the draft Protocol on cooperation in the field of Securing Maritime Safety in the Caspian Sea began its work in Ashgabat. The meeting is attended by experts from the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation and Turkmenistan, employees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, the Institute of the Caspian Se...

71 transactions have been registered at the trades of the State Commodity and Raw Material Exchange of Turkmenistan last week. For foreign currency, brokers from Afghanistan, Great Britain, United Arab Emirates, Russia and Switzerland have bought straight run gasoline, polypropylene, liquefied gas, hydro treated diesel fuel and jet fuel produced by Turkmenbashy Refinery Complex. In addition, colourless sheet glass and cotton yarn have been sold for foreign currency to the buyers from Irela...

The Ministry of Energy of Turkmenistan and TAPP-500 Power Transmission Line FZE, a subsidiary enterprise of Çalik Holding A.Ş. (the Turkish Republic) signed the Agreement on cooperation in implementing the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan power transmission line project. This meeting was organized with the aim to develop a legal framework for a mutual partnership on the construction of a 220 kW power line. The issues related to the laying of a transnational energy highway directly through ou...

The Institute of State, Law and Democracy hosted regular session of Interdepartmental Commission for provision of international obligations of Turkmenistan in human rights and international humanitarian law. Representatives of the Mejlis, ministries, departments and public organizations took part in the meeting. The agenda included discussion of objectives related to realization of initiatives in human rights and international humanitarian law spheres, which were proposed by President Gurbang...

President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov held working session with participation of Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers Ch. Purchekov and Minister of energy M. Artykov. Improvement of efficiency of energy sphere as well as measures for successful fulfilment of the Programme of social and economic development of the country in 2019 – 2025 and objectives of this sphere have been discussed at the session. Establishment of wide network of energy infrastructure in Turkmenistan, modernization...

On January 23, 2020, the ninth meeting of the Turkmen-German Joint Working Group took place in Ashgabat. The Turkmen delegation was headed by the Minister of Trade and Foreign Economic Relations of Turkmenistan, while the German delegation was led by the Deputy Head of the External Policy Department of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy of Germany. During the negotiations, the issues of bilateral cooperation pertaining to various sectors of economy were discussed. The par...