On June 13, 2019 there was a ceremony in Paris of presenting the accreditation letter to the Director-General of the United Nation Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Ms. Audrey Azoulay by the Ambassador of Turkmenistan S.Jumaev, accrediting him as the Permanent Representative of Turkmenistan to the UNESCO. After the presentation ceremony there was a short meeting of Ambassador S.Jumaev with the Director-General of the UNESCO. Ambassador of Turkmenistan passed to Ms. Au...

On June 12, 2019, the President of Turkmenistan held a meeting in honor of the Day of Science in the building of the Academy of Sciences of the country. The meeting was attended by members of the Cabinet of Ministers, leaders of the Mejlis, representatives of the ministries and departments, administrations of the city of Ashgabat and velayats, public organizations, media representatives, scientists and professors, teachers of the higher educational institutions. At the beginning of the mee...

On 12 June 2019, the Embassy of Turkmenistan in the Republic of Azerbaijan, together with the Center for the Study of International Relations of Azerbaijan, held a round table discussion on the first Caspian Economic Forum, which will be held on 12 August this year in the Avaza National Tourist Zone. The event was attended by the heads and employees of diplomatic missions accredited in Baku, deputies, representatives of financial, economic and investment organizations, experts, scholars and T...

On the 12th of June 2019, the International scientific conference “Science, technology and innovative technologies in an Epoch of power and happiness” dedicated to the annually, widely celebrated Day of Science of Turkmenistan was held at the Engineering-technology University named after Oguz Khan.    The representatives of the ministries, profile departments, Academy of Sciences, foreign scientists and specialists, professors and students of the higher educational institutions, as well as th...

On June 12, 2019 a meeting was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Lithuania in Turkmenistan (with residence in Baku) Valdas Lastauskas, who completes his diplomatic mission. During the meeting the sides exchanged their views on the results of the work performed in order to strengthen bilateral relations between Turkmenistan and Lithuania, including within the framework of the dialogue Turkmenistan -...

On June 11, 2019 Turkmen-Singaporean political consultations were held in Singapore between the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of the two countries. Deputy Secretary (Asia-Pacific) of Singapore Mr. Ng Teck Hean headed the consultations from host side. At the beginning of the consultation the parties admitted that the regular holding of the political consultations were the real mechanism of strengthening the bilateral relations in political, trade-economic and cultural-humanitarian fields and d...

An OSCE-supported seminar on best practices in anti-money laundering (AML) and countering the financing of terrorism (CFT) in the sector of designated non-financial businesses and professions (DNFBP) took place in Ashgabat from 10 to 11 June 2019. The event was organized by the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat, jointly with the Ministry of Finance and Economy of Turkmenistan and its Financial Monitoring Service. The aim of the seminar was to enhance the participants’ understanding of international...