On October 21, 2019 in Tokyo, before the start of the working visit by President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov to Japan, the Turkmen-Japanese business forum was held. In the conference hall of the Shinagawa Prince Hotel, a small exposition of decorative and applied arts products of Turkmenistan was exhibited. The meeting was attended by leaders and leading experts of a number of large Japanese companies working in various industrial sectors, sectors of transport, communications and high technolog...

On October 21, 2019, President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov began a working visit to Japan. The presidential plane landed at Tokyo-Haneda International Airport. Here, the Turkmen leader was received by the officials and members of the government delegation of Turkmenistan. A motorcade of President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov proceeded from the airport to the Chinzanso Tokyo Hotel, where the residence of the Turkmen leader was located during his stay in Tokyo. Within the framewor...

On October 21, 2019, a meeting was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Bosnia and Herzegovina to Turkmenistan (with the residence in Tehran), Mr. Samir Veladziç, who arrived in Ashgabat to present his credentials. At the beginning of the meeting, the parties expressed their commitment to the development of mutually beneficial bilateral relations. Having discussed issues of further development of partnership between t...

On October 21, 2019, the second meeting of the joint Turkmen-Georgian commission on international road transport began in Tbilisi. The Deputy Minister of Industry and Communication of Turkmenistan heads the Turkmen delegation; the Georgian side is headed by the Deputy Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia. The delegations shared information and statistics on trade turnover and volume of road transport between the two countries. A high growth rate in bilateral transport...

On October 18, 2019, the opening ceremony of the VII Summer Military World Games was held in the city of Wuhan of the People’s Republic of China, where the sports delegation of the Armed forces of Turkmenistan participated for the first time. Military World Games are the biggest event in the world after the Olympic Games. More than ten thousand athletes and trainers as well as representatives of the technical staff from more than 100 countries of the world take part in current games, which wi...

On October 18-19, 2019, the VII China-Central Asia Cooperation Forum was held in Nanning, the economic, administrative and cultural center of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of the PRC, in which representatives of Turkmenistan also participated. The event was organized by the SCO China Committee for Good Neighborhood, Friendship and Cooperation, the Foreign Affairs Office of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and the People’s Government of this region. The meeting brought together head...

The OSCE Centre organized a series of lectures on codes of conduct and ethical standards in law enforcement from 14 to 19 October 2019 in Ashgabat. The Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Border Institute of the State Border Service of Turkmenistan each hosted a programme of lectures. The series of three events brought together more than 250 students from five institutions of higher education. The s...