During the session of the Cabinet of Ministers on December 1, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov noted that advantages of geographic location of Turkmenistan on the crossroad of the main routes of the continent allows favourable realization of national transport resources for the provision of Eurasian connections. In this aspect, the Head of the State paid special attention to the necessity of dynamic modernization of all branches of national transport, which are to operate on the best world...

On December 6, 2017, in the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, a meeting was held with the delegation of the European Union led by the Director for Russia, Eastern Partnership, Central Asia, Regional Cooperation and the OSCE in the European External Action Service (EEAS), Luke Pierre Devin. The agenda of the meeting included issues of bilateral cooperation in various areas of mutual interest. Noting Turkmenistan's commitment to developing cooperation with EU institut...

On December 4-5, 2017, the delegation of Turkmenistan headed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs R. Meredov paid a working visit to Moscow, where attended the Seventh Meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Caspian littoral states. During the meeting, the Foreign Ministers of Russia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan discussed issues of the Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea, as well as documents regulating five-way cooperation in the Caspian in various fields...

On December 5, 2017, the Seventeenth Meeting of the "Turkmenistan-EU" Joint Committee was held in Ashgabat. To attend the meeting, the delegation from the European Union, lead by the Director for Russia, Eastern Partnership, Central Asia, Regional Cooperation and the OSCE in the European External Action Service (EEAS), Luc Pierre Devigne, arrived in the Turkmen capital. During the meeting the sides discussed wide range of issues of bilateral cooperation in the sphere of trade and economics be...

On December 5, 2017, the ninth meeting of the Turkmen-Austrian joint commission was held in Ashgabat. The meeting was chaired from Turkmen part by the chairman of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Turkmenistan, from Austrian part by Director General for foreign economic relations of the Federal Ministry of science, research and economy of the Republic of Austria Franz Wessig. At the beginning of the meeting, the sides summed up the results of the work of the Turkmen-Austrian joint commi...

On December 4, 2017, a Turkmen-Austrian business forum was held in the capital hotel "Archabil", for participation in which a representative delegation of the Austrian Republic arrived in Ashgabat. From the Austrian side the business forum was attended by representatives of several government agencies and organizations, and 24 companies specialized in the field of trade, health, agriculture, transport and logistics, energy, engineering, engineering technology, construction, tourism and others...

On December 4, 2017, political consultations between the representatives of the foreign policy departments of Turkmenistan and the Republic of Austria have been held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan. The delegation of guests was led by the head of the Department of Eastern and Southern Europe, South Caucasus and Central Asia of the Ministry for European Affairs, Integration and Foreign Affairs of Austria Katarina Vizier. During the political consultations, issues of bilatera...