On March 25, 2019, Turkmen-Estonian political consultations were held in the premises of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan. The delegation of the Republic of Estonia, which arrived in Ashgabat on a working visit, was headed by Mr. Lembit Uibo, the General Director of the Political Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia. At the beginning of the meeting, the sides exchanged greetings and discussed the current state of the Turkmen-Estonian relations. In addition,...

On March 21-22, 2019, the Regional Forum on Sustainable Development held its work at the Geneva International Conference Center, in which high-level delegations from countries of the ECE region took part. Turkmenistan was represented at the forum by a delegation headed by the Deputy Minister of Finance and Economy of Turkmenistan. The opening ceremony, chaired by the Minister of Health and Social Protection of Albania, Ms. O. Manastirlyu, was attended by Under-Secretary-General of the UN,...

Turkmenistan celebrated the International Day of Novruz, the National Spring Holiday, on a large scale, the main celebrations in honor of which were unfolded in the Novruz Valley in Ahal velayat, where the building was erected in the form of a huge yurt - “Türkmeniň ak öýi”. Here, with the participation of President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, the next stage of the implementation of a large-scale landscaping program was launched. Among the guests invited to the event were representatives of th...

On March 18, 2019, the Embassy of Turkmenistan in the People's Republic of China held in China Petroleum University in Beijing, together with the university’s rector’s office, a presentation and a festive concert, as well as a reception and treat service in honor of the first Caspian Economic Forum, the chairmanship of Turkmenistan in the CIS and IFAS as well as the International Day of Novruz. At the grand opening of the presentation, the Ambassador of Turkmenistan to China made a speech, wh...

Arranged at the French Institute, an exhibition of French artist Iris Fossier has attracted professional artists and art lovers alike. Iris Fossier, a graduate of the Higher National School of Decorative Arts and Higher National School of Fine Arts in Paris, has become an avant-garde artist with a distinctive outlook on the world – ingenuous and charged with emotions. That is why her works exude such a powerful magnetism. Iris works in papier mache - a mixture of glue and starch - and creates...

Employees of the Kaplankyr State Nature Reserve have observed growing populations of fish-eating birds on the Dashoguz diversion canal of the Turkmen Lake. The canal and its banks covered in vegetation are a wintering ground for pelicans, cormorants, seagulls, ducks and other birds, which nested on the Sarykamysh Lake before. Wetland birds wintering here have also grown in number. According to the specialists, this is chiefly caused by an overall enhancement of biological resources of the lake u...

On the 18th of March 2019, a meeting between the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan and the newly appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Benin to Turkmenistan (with residence in Ankara) Mr. Issiradjou Gomina Ibrahim was held in the premises of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan. In the beginning of the meeting, the Ambassador presented the copies of his credentials and expressed his readiness to work actively for the sake of deve...