Today, on the 15th of July, the Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov met with the U.S. Homeland Security Advisor Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall. The U.S. Special representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad also participated to the meeting. The parties discussed the key aspects of Turkmen-American cooperation, in particular in the field of security. In this context, the importance of bilateral and multilateral me...

On the 14th of July 2021 the videoconference review meeting was held on the topic of developing the practical measures for further cooperation between Turkmenistan and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime for the period of 2019-2020. The meeting was attended by the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Regional Representative for Central Asia Ms.Ashita Mittal, the Head of the Program Office of UNODC in Kazakhstan Mr.Naveed Riaz, CARICC Coordinator, and coordinators of the...

On the 14th of July 2021, upon the initiative of the Turkmen side, the meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the states of Central Asia took place in Tashkent. The heads of MFA of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, as well as the First Deputy Foreign Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic have arrived to the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan to participate to the High Level International Conference “Central and South Asia: Regional Connectivity. Challenges and Opportunities”. During...

On the 13th of July 2021, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China Wang Yi was received by the President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov. During the constructive talk, the high level of bilateral ties in political, trade-economic and cultural-humanitarian spheres was confirmed. The importance of cooperation of Turkmenistan and China in the framework of regional and international formats was underlined.  The bilateral issues were considered, as well as the...

On the 12th of July 2021, the official two-day visit of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China Wang Yi to Turkmenistan has started. In the framework of the visit, bilateral meetings with the leadership pf the country are planned, as well as the successive round of the political consultations between the MFA of two countries. Thus, on the 12th of July, a meeting was held between the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov and the Minister of For...

In recent days, a number of Russian media outlets have been spreading unproven and plainly biased reports about the situation on the Turkmen-Afghan border. In particular, RBC TV channel spread untrue information about the alleged deployment of Turkmenistan's military equipment and artillery to the border with Afghanistan, which means nothing but false information in the pursuit of cheap sensation. In this regard, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan declares that thanks to the b...

On July 8, 2021, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Turkmenistan to the United Arab Emirates Serdarmammet Garadjaev presented his credentials to the Prime Minister of the State of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Khalid Al-Hamad Al-Sabah as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Turkmenistan to the State of Kuwait (with residence in Abu-Dhabi).  The ceremony was held in the Palace of the Emir of the State of Kuwait. During the ceremony, the Ambassador of Turkmenistan conveyed to...