Ashgabat, 13 November 2017.A signing ceremony of two Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) took place at the side of the Executive Committee of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea in particular between: The Executive Committee of the International Fund for Saving the Aral and the Deutsche GesellschaftfürInternationaleZusammenarbeit (GIZ), represented by the Regional Programme"Transboundary Water Management in Central Asia (TWM CA)",and The Executive Committee of the International Fun...

On November 7-10, 2017, the delegation of Turkmenistan was in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on a working visit. At the regular fifth meeting of the Turkmen-Saudi Intergovernmental Commission that took place in Riyadh, the sides discussed commercial, economic and investment cooperation, including collaboration in the fuel and energy complex; concrete agreements were reached in several fields. The session was attended by executives from industry and energy sectors of Turkmenistan, and by manageme...

On November 9, 2017, a meeting was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Hungary at the level of deputy foreign ministers of Turkmenistan and Hungary. During the meeting, the sides discussed the development of bilateral relations, expansion of cooperation within the framework of international organizations, in particular within the framework of the UN, OSCE and the EU, and expressed satisfaction with the mutual support of international initiatives of each other within various internation...

The Research guidance centre on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which was recently opened in the Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, held the first training course that brought together the representatives of the Democratic and Agrarian political parties as well as the Party of industrialists and entrepreneurs of Turkmenistan.  Among the trainers at the centre are the experts of the United Nations Organization, the UN Development...

The seminar of the Central Asia Regional Ecological Centre dedicated to the principles of integrated management of water resources had been organized in Ashkhabad. The event was organized under the chairing of our country in the IFAS and improvement of the potential of management link in water sphere.  The meeting was attended by the deputies of the Mejlis, specialists of the ministries of agriculture and water management, finances and economy, National Committee for hydrometeorology under th...

On November 8, 2017, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan met with the Deputy Foreign Minister of the State of Palestine Mazen Shamia, who arrived to the Turkmen capital on a working visit. The issues of cooperation within the framework of international organizations, primarily the UN, were discussed among the priority areas of cooperation. It was noted the importance of regular political consultations between the foreign ministries of the two countries to further improve and expan...

On 7-8 November 2017, the 14th meeting of the Task Force on Regional Energy Cooperation in Central and South Asia (RECA) was held in the capital hotel “Yildyz”. The Ministry of Energy of Turkmenistan acted as host. Employees and specialists from relevant ministries and agencies of Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, representatives of international and regional organizations such as the International Energy Charter, CIS, USAID and representatives of e...