PRESS-RELEASE 20 June 2018, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan In conjunction with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) nationalization process in Turkmenistan, the United Nations Development Programme and the State Bank for Economic Affairs (TFEB) are working to improve the access of Turkmenistan to international financing and to improve its capacity to deliver and manage such financing streams effectively. As part of the joint initiative, on June 20, 2018, UNDP and TFEB held International Fina...

Early in the morning on June 20, President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov left the Turkmen capital for the Republic of Tajikistan to take part in the High Level International Conference on the International Decade for Action “Water for Sustainable Development” 2018-2028. After an hour and a half flight, the presidential airliner landed in the International Airport in Dushanbe, decorated with the State Flags of the two countries. The high-ranking officials greeted the Turkmen leader...

Early in the morning, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov with his son – the Mejlis Deputy, Head of National Martial Arts Federation, Honoured Coach of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov, visited the Motorsports Centre, where he personally re-equipped and re-build high-speed sport off-road vehicle according to his drawings and tested its capabilities. Today, national motorsport has great future. These are huge personal merits of the Head of the State. Owing to the attention of the President o...

Opening of festival “Music of Nury Halmamedov – Everlasting Melody of Epochs” dedicated to the 80th anniversary of National Artist of Turkmenistan was held in the Mukams Palace of the State Cultural Centre. Cultural personnel came to the capital from all velayats for the participation in the event organized by the Ministry of Culture. It was mentioned at the opening ceremony that the festival in honour of outstanding composer acquires special importance in the context of the slogan of this ye...

On June 13, 2018, at the 96th meeting of the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly, Turkmenistan was elected to the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) for 2019-2021. The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) is at the heart of the United Nations, which coordinates the activities of the UN, its specialized agencies and organizations in the economic, social, health and educational spheres. ECOSOC was established in 1946 by the Charter of the United Nations an...

On June 12, 2018, the two-day International Conference "Science, Techniques and Innovative Technologies", timed to the Day of Science, started its work in Ashgabat. Scientists, teachers and young specialists from Turkmenistan, as well as representatives of scientific circles from more than thirty countries, including Russia, USA, Japan, the Republic of Korea, China, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Bangladesh, Turkey, Iran, Finland, Bulgaria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhs...

President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov held the session in the capital administration with the participation of the members of the Cabinet of Ministers and State Security Council, heads of relative ministries and departments, administration of Ashgabat and its etraps, heads of municipal services. The agenda included the objectives of further urban planning of the capital and maintenance of its infrastructure. Addressing the participants, the President noted that recently, great attention has bee...