On November 10-11, 2017 in Samarkand, an international conference on security and sustainable development in Central Asia under the title "Central Asia: One Past and a Common Future, Cooperation for Sustainable Development and Mutual Prosperity" as well as the meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Central Asian states of the format "European Union - Central Asia" were held under the auspices of the United Nations. The delegation of Turkmenistan, headed by Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Minis...

Power engineers from Turkmenistan are working on increasing power supply to Afghanistan. At present, according to the previously signed contract, the neighboring country annually receives 700 million kilowatt hours of electric energy through two electric power lines, Ymamnazar–Andkhoy and Serhetabat–Herat–Torghundi. Furthermore, it is planned to work together to supply energy to Badghis and Jowzjan provinces. As is known, for this purpose, an Agreement was signed on 3 July 2017 between...

At the tournament of the Cup of Association of Chess Federations in memory of Michael Botvinnik among the strongest chess players of the CIS countries under 14 which took place in Moscow our compatriot Azat Nurmamedov who yielded to the winner - Moldavian Ivan Skitsko just all half-point, became a silver prize-winner. Master of FIDE, schoolboy of the Ashgabat chess and draughts school Azat Nurmamedov - the champion of Asia-2016 among juniors under 13 and silver prize-winner of the world champion...

Outcomes of the mission of International Monetary Fund was reported during the session of the Cabinet of Ministers on November 10 of this year. The Fund gave high remark to the development of national economy what became another evidence of the efficiency of the Government course of President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov.  IMF communication prepared by the experts on this account says that during the visit of the delegation of this competent financial delegation chaired by Mr Martin Sommer to As...

On November 9, 2017, a meeting was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Hungary at the level of deputy foreign ministers of Turkmenistan and Hungary. During the meeting, the sides discussed the development of bilateral relations, expansion of cooperation within the framework of international organizations, in particular within the framework of the UN, OSCE and the EU, and expressed satisfaction with the mutual support of international initiatives of each other within various internation...

During working trip to Balkan Velayat, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov inspected the construction of new International seaport in the city of Turkmenbashy.  As is known, Turkmenistan having favourable geo-economic location pays utmost attention to the realization of its transit and transport potential as an important factor that supports successful solution of the objectives for rapid rates of the industrialization of the country, diversification of national economy, development of fruitf...

The seminar of the Central Asia Regional Ecological Centre dedicated to the principles of integrated management of water resources had been organized in Ashkhabad. The event was organized under the chairing of our country in the IFAS and improvement of the potential of management link in water sphere.  The meeting was attended by the deputies of the Mejlis, specialists of the ministries of agriculture and water management, finances and economy, National Committee for hydrometeorology under th...