On June 20, 2018, President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov left for a working visit to the Republic of Tajikistan in order to participate in the High-Level International Conference on the UN Decade of Action "Water for Sustainable Development, 2018-2028". After an hour and a half flight, the presidential airliner landed at the International airport of the capital of Tajikistan, where the national flags of the two countries were raised on flagpoles. President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamed...

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...

On June 19, 2018 in the National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Astana, the XIII Forum of Creative and Scientific Intelligentsia of the countries-participants of the Commonwealth of Independent States, in which the delegation of Turkmenistan participates, began its work. The theme of the annual meeting was "Dialogue in the CIS - prospects for humanitarian cooperation in the 21st century". The event, organized with the support of the Intergovernmental Foundation for Educational, Scien...

On June 14, 2018, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan there was a meeting with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Slovenia in Turkmenistan (with residence in Moscow) Primozh Sheligo, who is completing his diplomatic mission in Turkmenistan. During the meeting, the Ambassador expressed his sincere gratitude to the Turkmen side for the support rendered to the Embassy over the years. Noting the effective development of mutually beneficial cooperati...

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...

On June 11, 2018, the third meeting of the Turkmen-Croatian Intergovernmental Commission for Economic Cooperation had been held in Zagreb. The commission was attended by the heads and representatives of the leading ministries and industry departments, as well as representatives of business circles of the two states. The agenda of the forum included a wide range of issues touching various areas of bilateral cooperation. The parties discussed the implementation of the agreements reached afte...