On September 18, 2017, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan hosted a meeting with the Singapore delegation headed by the State Minister of Foreign Affairs and Labor Resources of the Republic of Singapore Sam Tan. In the course of the meeting, noting the importance of the visits at the highest level in terms of developing friendly relations between the two countries, the Singaporean party proposed to expand cooperation in this direction. The sides also expressed interest in devel...

On September 18, 2017, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan there was a meeting with the Thai delegation led by the Deputy Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Thailand, General Thanasak Patimapragorn, who arrived in Turkmenistan to participate in the opening ceremony of the 5th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games. Expressing sincere gratitude for the warm hospitality, the guest stressed that the Kingdom of Thailand highly appreciates the policy of neutrality and good neighborliness...

On September 18, 2017, there was a meeting between the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan R. Meredov and the Deputy Foreign Minister of Japan on parliamentary issues, Mr. Hori Manabu, who arrived in Turkmenistan to participate in the opening ceremony of the 5th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games. At the beginning of the meeting, Mr. Hori Manabu congratulated Turkmenistan on the successful holding of the opening ceremony of the 5th Asian Games. During the meeting, the parties disc...

Substantive questions of the press conference, held in the Olympic village were aimed at strengthening productive relations, improving the efficiency of joint measures on coverage of sports competitions of the 5th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games.  The meeting participants emphasized that cooperation of Turkmenistan’s mass media representatives with sports press associations, leading journalists would be mutually beneficial exchange of experience, and positively impact on increasing the le...

Sport relay of Ashgabat 2017 Games is picking up revolutions. September 18 was very successful for Turkmenistan National team that supplemented the collection of sport achievements of the country with 25 different medals including 13 gold, 7 silver and 5 bronze. This achievement improved the leadership of our team in total medal count. By the outcomes of all days, national team has 62 medals including 29 gold, 21 silver and 12 bronze.  Today, as it was expected the success was on our side dur...

Declaration on Encouragement of valuable contribution of the Refugees Olympic teams to consolidation of peace and human rights initiated by President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov was unanimously adopted in Geneva, where 36th session of the United Nations Council for Human Rights is held these days. I was lately joined by Brazil.  29 countries UN members including Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Argentina, Belarus, Brazil, China, Columbia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, France, Georgia, Japan, Kazakhsta...

On the second day at the 5th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games, futsal tournament continued and tennis and Muaythai competitions began. The central court of the Olympic Village saw the Turkmen tennis player, Isa Mametgulyev, outpoint Bira Tebatibunga of Kiribati 6:2, 6:0 in two sets. Isa will now compete in the second round of the tournament. Two more matches followed in women’s tennis. Aldila Sutjiadi of Indonesia and Ruby Coffin of Fiji will advance to the second round. Six first si...