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...

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...

President of Turkmenistan, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of the country, Army General Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov held offsite session of the State Security Council where the outcomes of work of military and law enforcement agencies for 11 months of the year were summed up and the objectives for near future were outlined. Yearly in the morning, the helicopter of the Head of the State landed at one of the military divisions. The Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of the country was wa...

President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov held regular video conference session with the participation of the heads of number of ministries and departments, hyakims of velayats and Ashgabat. Priority matters of social and economic development of the country including the issues of the realization of national reform programmes, preparation to coming remarkable dates as well as other important subjects of the state life have been reviewed during the session. First, the President of the country called...

VII International Martial Arts Games, where Turkmen National taekwondo team won two bronze medals in team competition and one bronze medal in personal offset, have finished in Minsk. Turkmen taekwondo team comprising of Goshaniyaz Durdiyev, Orazmyrat CHariyev, Gaygysyz Atabayev, Annamyrat Goshaniyazov and Serdar Hydyrov performed well in two disciplines – the team tuli (complex exercises) and team sparring. Having demonstrated the cohesion and coordination, our team won two bronze medals....

Turkmenistan National team continue successful performance at the World Powerlifting Championship in Anaheim. Our sportsmen won another three silver medals. Rejepbay Rejepov in weight category up to 77 kg lifted 352 in combined clean-and-jerk and snatch, having taken over Harrison Dyce Maurus from the USA, the junior world champion of this year, by 4 kg and yielded 9 kg to the winner, Egyptian sportsman Mohamed Mahmud, the bronze winner of the Olympics in Rio. By the way, Rejepbay result i...

Turkmenistan wrestlers won seven medals at the World Kurash Championship in Istanbul. Our team has brought the strongest wrestlers who are the prize-winners of the V Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games that were held in Ashgabat in September. Totally, there are 270 sportsmen from 35 countries participating in the competitions that will last until December 4. Shamuhammet Kurbanov competing in the weight category up to 60 kg won silver medal. Besides, the collection of medals of our National...