The Turkmen national rite of singing and dancing, Kushtdepdi, has been inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Humanity. This has been communicated at the session of the Government of Turkmenistan by President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov. The decision was adopted unanimously at the 12th session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage that took place on 7 December 2017 in Jeju (Republic of Korea)....

The delegation of Turkmenistan attended the 24th meeting of the OSCE Ministerial Council, which was held on December 7-8 in Vienna, Austria. Heads of the ministries of foreign affairs from 57 states of the OSCE region and delegations from 11 Partners for Co-operation took part in the Ministerial Council meeting, which was chaired by OSCE Chairman-in-Office S.Kurz, Minister for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Austria. Security issues in OSCE participating States, pre...

On the occasion of International Neutrality Day, President of Turkmenistan, Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Turkmenistan, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, signed the Decree on Pardoning Convicted Persons. Pursuant to the document, 697 citizens of the country will be freed from further serving the basic sentence and additional penalty of being imposed the obligation to reside in a certain locality. Consequently, the head of state has tasked the Secretary of the State Security Co...

On the occasion of International Neutrality Day, 1690 persons became Turkmen citizens. The relevant Decree has been signed by President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov at the Government session. As reported by Vice Premier, Foreign Minister of Turkmenistan, Rashid Meredov, based on the current legislation, norms of international law and principles of humanism underlying the domestic and foreign policy of the country, measures are consistently taken in Turkmenistan to ensure the rights and freedoms...

President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, sent a message to the President of Turkmenistan, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, expressing gratitude for efforts to expand friendly and good-neighborly relations between countries. “Involvement of Your Excellency in the ground breaking ceremony for the construction of Serhetabad – Torghundi railway line was, for the Afghan people, a significant event and became yet another evidence of friendly, brotherly and good-neighborly...

In January-November, 2017, the GDP growth rate in Turkmenistan made up 6.5 percent. The GDP growth rate increased by 5.8 percent in the production sector, by 1.4 percent – in the construction sector, by 10.9 percent - in the transport and communications sector, by 9.6 percent in the trade industry, by 5.1 percent – in the agricultural sector, by 8.9 percent in the sphere of services. As compared with the same period of 2016, the growth in the production industry achieved 6.4 percent. In Ja...

In accordance with the Programme of the social and economic development of Turkmenistan for 2018-2024, adopted during the Elders’ Council in October this year, over 1.300 billion manats will be invested into the development of the national space sphere.  It is planned to launch a land remote sensing satellite into the space orbit, as well as to significantly widen the ground infrastructure of the space industry, train specialists and organize the scientific work on space.  The beginning of...