On November 23, 2017, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed in Ashgabat between the Ministry of Railway Transport of Turkmenistan and the Administration of Afghanistan Railway Transport. The document, prepared in accordance with the instructions of the President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, provides for the overhaul of the railway line at the border station Turgundi in Afghanistan.  The new document is aimed at strengthening interaction and expanding transport infrastructure...

On November 22, 2017 political consultations between the ministries of foreign affairs of Turkmenistan and the Federal Republic of Germany were held in Berlin in the building of the Foreign Ministry of Germany. At the meeting, the German delegation was headed by Andreas Peschke, the Çommissioner of the Foreign Ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany for Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia, and the Turkmen delegation was headed by Deputy Foreign Minister of Turkmenistan. In the c...

On November 22, 2017 the sixth Turkmen-Russian economic forum was held in Ashgabat for participation in which a representative delegation of the Russian Federation arrived in the capital of Turkmenistan. The delegation includes representatives of a number of state institutions and organizations, as well as companies specializing in trade, food industry, construction, electronic information technologies, engineering, oil and gas and others. The Turkmen side was attended by the heads and specia...

On November 21, 2017, the International University for the Humanities and Development (IUHD) held a meeting with the President of the Tokyo University of International Studies Hirotaka Tateishi and Vice-President Sukero Ito who arrived to Ashgabat as part of the Japanese delegation. This visit of Japanese colleagues to our country is aimed at further development of the bilateral partnership in higher education. During the current meeting, a lecture course was conducted for students and teache...

I congratulate you in the event of international significance – the 10th anniversary of the opening of the UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asian in the capital of Turkmenistan as well as on the adoption of the Resolution of the UN General Assembly “Role of the UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia” on occasion of this date on November 17 of this year, - the message of the Head of the State says.  As is known, Turkmenistan is the only state in the...

On November 19, 2017 in Riyadh the presentation of the book "Turkmenistan is the heart of the Great Silk Road" by President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov was organized by the Embassy of Turkmenistan in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The presentation was attended by representatives of the King Faisal Research Center for Islamic Studies, the Center for Research and International Knowledge (CRIK), the Humanitarian Association of World Turkmens, activists of the Turkmen diaspora in Saud...

The United Nations General Assembly adopted on November 17, 2017, the resolution "The Role of the UN Regional Center for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia", submitted by Turkmenistan. 57 countries have co-sponsored the resolution. The resolution welcomes the Center's efforts to strengthen dialogue among the countries of the region in addressing issues of common concern. In the course of introduction of the draft text at the General Assembly meeting, it was stressed that for ten years s...