I extend to you my congratulations on the opening of the International Conference “Important of the Great Silk Road: Present and Future Development”! I trust that this forum will play an important role in the extensive research of the history of the Road and become an effective platform to define its present and future development, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov states in his Address. In 2018, our country celebrates the slogan “Turkmenistan: Heart of the Great Silk Road”. Major works tha...

An international exhibition of production technologies for import-substituting products was held in Ashgabat. It was organized by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Turkmenistan. The exhibition aimed to demonstrate Turkmenistan’s successes in the sphere of import substitution, as well as prospects for international cooperation. The exhibition brought together about 90 exhibitors, including state-owned and private business structures of Turkmenistan, as well as companies from Europe and t...

On December 4, 2018, a video conference was held in Ashgabat to discuss the preparation of the new Aral Sea Basin Program (ASBP-4), which was attended by staff of the IFAS Executive Board, national experts from Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, as well as representatives of international organizations. At the beginning of the meeting, national experts presented reports on the processes for preparing project proposals from their countries. Following the discussion, it was...

On the 4th of December, 2018 at the capital’s “Yildyz” hotel there was an Expert Meeting on the theme “Traditional Sports and Games  of the Interactive Atlas of Cultural Interactions along the Silk Road” with the participation of the representatives of UNESCO and other International Organizations. The Representative of Turkmenistan Government and Representative of UNESCO made their presentations in the opening ceremony of the Meeting. Also there was held a presentation of UNESKO’s Silk Road p...

On December 3-5, 2018, Ashgabat hosted a course of lectures of Ambassador Mrs. Swanee Hunt for students and staff of the ministries and government agencies on the theme “The role of women in the security and development process”, organized by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). This course of lectures is devoted to the role of women in conflict resolution, gender stereotypes in matters of war and peace. Speaking at the opening of this event at the International Uni...

On December 4, 2018, the Fifth meeting of the Coordination Committee on the Serial Nomination of the World Heritage of the Silk Road on the UNESCO World Heritage List began at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, which will continue until December 5, 2018. This meeting was attended by the representatives of the national coordination centers and experts from fourteen countries that are members of the Intergovernmental Coordination Committee on the Serial Nomination of the Silk Road...

On November 29, 2018 the second session of the Joint intergovernmental Turkmen-Egyptian commission on economic and scientific-technical cooperation was held in Cairo city. In the framework there were 11 bilateral meetings of the heads and representatives of the ministries and government agencies of Turkmenistan and Arab Republic of Egypt, during which the parties exchanged opinions on the areas that cause mutual interest and agreements on a number of areas were reached. On the sideline of...