Today, on May 17, 2023, the Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Vepa Hajiyev received the newly appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to Turkmenistan Ivan Volynkin. At the beginning of the meeting, the Russian Ambassador presented copies of his credentials. V.Hajiyev congratulated the Ambassador on his appointment to a high diplomatic post and expressed his readiness to provide assistance and support in his activities in his new post....

Today, May 17, 2023, a delegation headed by the Director General of the Transport and Communications Agency under the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan Mammetkhan Chakiev arrived in Kazan to participate in the XIV Kazan International Economic Forum "Russia - the Islamic World: Kazan Forum 2023". The purpose of the Forum is to strengthen trade, economic, scientific, technical, social and cultural ties between Russia and the countries of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. The forum pro...

The United Nations General Assembly, led by Turkmenistan's initiative, has proclaimed November 26 as World Sustainable Transport Day. This significant proclamation stems from the inaugural Global Conference on Sustainable Transport held in Ashgabat on November 26, 2016. The resolution endorsing this day was adopted by the UN General Assembly on May 16, 2023, during the 70th plenary meeting of its 77th session. Presenting the resolution "World Day of Sustainable Transport", the Permanent Re...

On May 15, 2023, the meeting between the Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan V.Hajiyev and the President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Margareta Sederfelt was held in the Foreign Ministry of Turkmenistan. During the meeting, an exchange of views took place on the state and prospects for the development of cooperation between Turkmenistan and the OSCE PA in the field of politics, promotion of parliamentary diplomacy and youth parliamentarism, in the field of energy and envi...

On May 16, 2023, negotiations were held between the Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan V.Hajiyev and the delegation of the German company Goetzpartners. During the meeting, the parties discussed a wide range of topical issues of bilateral trade and economic partnership. An exchange of views also took place in the context of the implementation of promising projects in the economy and investment cooperation.

On May 15, 2023, President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov received the director of the UNESCO Cluster Office in Tehran Golda El-Khoury. Noting the high interest of UNESCO in further deepening the constructive dialogue with Turkmenistan, Golda El-Khoury stressed that last year the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, at the initiative of the Turkmen state, was supplemented with such types of intangible heritage as “Turkmen art of embroidery”, “Seri...

Today, on May 15, 2023, in Astana, the Turkmen delegation took part in the 12th meeting of the intergovernmental commission on economic, scientific, technical and cultural cooperation co-chaired by the Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan Batyr Atdaev and the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan Roman Sklyar. During the meeting, the parties exchanged views on the topics discussed at the 11th meeting of the IGC, held in Ashgabat in December 2021. Other iss...