On the occasion of International Neutrality Day, 1690 persons became Turkmen citizens. The relevant Decree has been signed by President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov at the Government session. As reported by Vice Premier, Foreign Minister of Turkmenistan, Rashid Meredov, based on the current legislation, norms of international law and principles of humanism underlying the domestic and foreign policy of the country, measures are consistently taken in Turkmenistan to ensure the rights and freedoms...

President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, sent a message to the President of Turkmenistan, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, expressing gratitude for efforts to expand friendly and good-neighborly relations between countries. “Involvement of Your Excellency in the ground breaking ceremony for the construction of Serhetabad – Torghundi railway line was, for the Afghan people, a significant event and became yet another evidence of friendly, brotherly and good-neighborly...

In January-November, 2017, the GDP growth rate in Turkmenistan made up 6.5 percent. The GDP growth rate increased by 5.8 percent in the production sector, by 1.4 percent – in the construction sector, by 10.9 percent - in the transport and communications sector, by 9.6 percent in the trade industry, by 5.1 percent – in the agricultural sector, by 8.9 percent in the sphere of services. As compared with the same period of 2016, the growth in the production industry achieved 6.4 percent. In Ja...

In accordance with the Programme of the social and economic development of Turkmenistan for 2018-2024, adopted during the Elders’ Council in October this year, over 1.300 billion manats will be invested into the development of the national space sphere.  It is planned to launch a land remote sensing satellite into the space orbit, as well as to significantly widen the ground infrastructure of the space industry, train specialists and organize the scientific work on space.  The beginning of...

During the session of the Cabinet of Ministers on December 1, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov noted that advantages of geographic location of Turkmenistan on the crossroad of the main routes of the continent allows favourable realization of national transport resources for the provision of Eurasian connections. In this aspect, the Head of the State paid special attention to the necessity of dynamic modernization of all branches of national transport, which are to operate on the best world...

On December 6, 2017, in the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, a meeting was held with the delegation of the European Union led by the Director for Russia, Eastern Partnership, Central Asia, Regional Cooperation and the OSCE in the European External Action Service (EEAS), Luke Pierre Devin. The agenda of the meeting included issues of bilateral cooperation in various areas of mutual interest. Noting Turkmenistan's commitment to developing cooperation with EU institut...

On December 4-5, 2017, the delegation of Turkmenistan headed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs R. Meredov paid a working visit to Moscow, where attended the Seventh Meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Caspian littoral states. During the meeting, the Foreign Ministers of Russia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan discussed issues of the Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea, as well as documents regulating five-way cooperation in the Caspian in various fields...