An opening ceremony of a modern water treatment facility built in “Turkmenistan” private farm association and a groundbreaking ceremony for the secondary school in Garahan village took place in Kaka district of Ahal province as part of the Program for the Socio-Economic Development of the country for 2019-2025 approved by President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov. The celebrations were attended by the deputy governor of Ahal province, Serdar Berdimuhamedov; representatives of the National Parliamen...

The Institute of State, Law and Democracy hosted a meeting of the Inter-ministerial Commission on Ensuring Turkmenistan’s Compliance with International Obligations in the Field of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law that reviewed the results of its work in 2018 and discussed its further activity. The meeting was attended by representatives of the country’s National Parliament, several ministries and sectoral agencies, and public organizations. The speakers noted that during the pe...

On the 15th of February 2019, a meeting of the National Leading and Coordinating Committee of the Partnership Framework Development (PFD) Program between Turkmenistan and the UN for 2016-2020 was held in the premises of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan. The representatives of the relevant ministries and departments of Turkmenistan, Permanent UN Resident Coordinator in Turkmenistan, as well as representatives of UN agencies and public organizations attended the meeting. During t...

On the 15th of February 2019, Turkmen-Japanese political consultations with the delegation headed by the Chief of the Central Asia and Caucasus branch of the European Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan Mikito Tomiyamo who arrived to Ashgabat on a working visit was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan. During the consultations, the parties exchanged views on the level of relations between Turkmenistan and Japan. Also the importance and effectiveness of mu...

On February 15, 2019, at the Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, the Ministry of Education of Turkmenistan, jointly with the National Center of Trade Unions and the head of the Berkararlyk district of Ashgabat, held a solemn event called “The Triumph of National Diplomacy in the Epoch of Power and Happiness” dedicated to the Day of Diplomatic Worker of Turkmenistan. The event was attended by the employees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs...

In the regional center of the Sakhalin region of the Russian Federation, the city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, on February 9, 2019, the first winter international sports games “Children of Asia” were opened, in which 28 teams from 20 countries took part. Participants in these games compete in 8 sports: biathlon, skiing, figure skating, snowboarding, alpine skiing, hockey, speed skating (short track) and ski jumping. Age of participants is not older than 16 years. The Turkmen national team is represe...

On the 14th of February of 2019, the conference was held dedicated to the outcomes of the historical address of the President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov made today, that is on the 14th of February in participation of the social-political organizations and workers of the cultural sphere. The leading staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan as well as its employees and diplomatic workers, as well as the faculty members and students of the Institute of International R...