“I cordially congratulate you on the Day of Victory in the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War - a significant date that occupies a special place in the world history”, said President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov addressing the people of Turkmenistan. “The Victory Day expresses the people’s aspiration for peace, friendship, humanity, unity and cohesion, and this is the deep meaning of this holiday. The openness, peacefulness, patriotism, fearlessness, courage are the traits inherent in the national me...

Within the framework of the 30th session of the Working Group of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), held in May 2018 in Geneva, Switzerland, the delegation of Turkmenistan, headed by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan V. S. Khadzhiev, took part on May 7, 2018 at the 3rd review of Turkmenistan. In the course of the above-mentioned event, the Turkmen side made a presentation on the main directions of Turkmenistan's policy to implement the commitments undertaken in the fiel...

The first issue of the quarterly, scientific-practical magazine "Foreign Policy and Diplomacy of Turkmenistan" prepared by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan has been published this month. The magazine is opened by an article dedicated to one of the main events of 2018 - solemn ceremonies on the occasion of the start of the construction on February 23, 2018 in the Serhetabat district of the Mary province and in the Afghan city of Herat, the Afghan section of the Turkmenistan-Afgh...

On May 7, 2018, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan there was a meeting with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Indonesia to Turkmenistan (with the residence in Tehran) Mr. Octavino Alimudin. At the beginning of the meeting, the sides expressed the need for further consolidation of efforts in developing cooperation between Turkmenistan and the Republic of Indonesia and exchanged views on the current state and prospects for expanding bilateral co...

National Institute of Sport and Tourism hosted the award ceremony of annual event action “Turkmenistan – the Country of Health and Inspiration” that is aimed at wide popularization of mass sports. Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports as well as the above-mentioned institute were the organizers of the event. During the whole month, the residents of the capital and regions participated in the different sport competitions defining the best on football, volleyball, basketball, track and field ath...

President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov held regular session of the Cabinet of Ministers where outcomes of work of the branches of national economy for four months of the year have been reviewed. Having announced the agenda, the Head of the State gave floor to Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers G. Myradov who reported on macroeconomic indicators for January – April of 2018. For the period under review, the growth of the GDP was 6.2 percent including 4.6 percent in industrial complex,...

On May 3, 2018, in the Avaza National Tourism Zone, the IX meeting of the Ministers of Transport and Communications of the member countries of the Economic Cooperation Organization was held. High-ranking representatives of the Economic Cooperation Organization, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), the International Road Transport Union (IRU) and a number of other international organizations attended the meeting which was held in the congress cente...