During the consecutive session of the OSCE Permanent Council held on the 5th of September 2019, the Delegation of Turkmenistan at the OSCE made an official statement on the outcomes of the First Caspian Economic Forum that took place in Turkmenbashy city on August 11-12, 2019.     It was noted in the statement that President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and the Heads of the Governments of the Caspian states have participated to the work of the Forum.   Also, the Prime-ministers o...

On September 5, 2019, a meeting was held in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan with the delegation of the CIS Executive Committee, headed by the First Deputy Chairman of the CIS Executive Committee – Executive Secretary V.A.Guminskiy, who has arrived to Turkmenistan on a working visit.   The parties noted the effectiveness of cooperation and advancement of events in the framework of Turkmenistan’s chairmanship in the Commonwealth of Independent States in the present year.  The re...

On the 2nd of September 2019, the first video bridge between the General Education School named after Makhtumkuli Fraghi situated in the Funtovo village of the Privolzhskiy district of the Astrakhan region and the Joint Turkmen-Russian General Education School named after A.S.Pushkin situated in Ashgabat was performed.    The representative of the Ministry of Education of Turkmenistan, Deputy Minister of Enlightenment of the Russian Federation P.S.Zenkovich, Acting Governor of the Astrakhan r...

On August 29, 2019, the presentation of the UN Special Programme for the Aral Sea basin (UN SPAS) was held in the UN ESCAP headquarters during the Sixth Session of the Committee on Disaster Risk Reduction in the framework of the side event “Environment and Disasters: Closing the gap in the Asia and the Pacific region.” The official representatives of the UN member-states delegations, experts of the UN structural agencies working in Bangkok, as well as the representatives of the public organiz...

On August 29, 2019, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan met with the Ambassador of the Republic of Kazakhstan to Turkmenistan, Zh.A.Asanov, on the occasion of the completion of his diplomatic mission. The parties noted a high level of bilateral relations and exchanged views on the further development of cooperation between Turkmenistan and the Republic of Kazakhstan in the political-diplomatic, trade-economic, cultural-humanitarian and other fields. At the end of the meeting, o...

A telephone conversation of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan R.O.Meredov with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation S.V.Lavrov was held on the 29th of August, during which the issues of bilateral cooperation were discussed. The parties highly appraised the outcomes of the First Caspian Economic Forum which was held in Turkmenbashy city on August11-12 of the current year.  Also, the heads of external policy agencies of the two countries exchanged views on...

On August 28, 2019, a meeting of the Working Group on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the country was held in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan. The heads and representatives of the ministries and departments of Turkmenistan, higher education institutions, mass media, as well as the key staff of the missions and international organizations accredited in Turkmenistan took part in the meeting.  During th...