On March 15-16, 2023, the 8th meeting of the Joint Turkmen-Tatarstan working group on trade, economic, scientific, technical and cultural cooperation was held in Ashgabat. A representative delegation headed by the Deputy Prime-minister, Minister of industry and trade of the Republic of Tatarstan of the Russian Federation O.Korobchenko arrived in the capital of Turkmenistan to participate in the meeting. The Turkmen delegation was headed by the Minister of finance and economy of Turkmenistan S.Jo...

On March 15, 2023, the 12th Tokyo Dialogue "Central Asia + Japan" was held in Tokyo, organized by the Ministry of foreign affairs of Japan and Japan Global Forum on the theme "Connecting with Central Asia and Caucasus". The dialogue was attended by the Deputy minister of foreign affairs of Japan, the President of the Japan Global Forum, experts from the countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus, representatives of embassies accredited in Japan, employees of Japanese government agencies, scie...

On March 14, 2023, the Embassy of Turkmenistan in France together with the Embassies and representations to UNESCO of Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, India, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan organized a joint cultural event to celebrate Nowruz. The cultural event took place in the reception hall of UNESCO Headquarters and was organized under the patronage of Ms.Audrey Azoulay, UNESCO Director-General. UNESCO Deputy Director General Mr. Firmin Edouard Matoko,...

On 13 March 2023, the House of Lords of the UK Parliament hosted an event dedicated to the trade and economic relations of the United Kingdom with the countries of Central Asia, the South Caucasus, Eastern Europe and the Middle East, entitled "Building Bilateral Trade and Industrial Links". The event was attended by ambassadors accredited to the United Kingdom, the UK Prime Minister's trade envoy to Turkmenistan Baroness Emma Nicholson, the UK Prime Minister's envoys to Lebanon and Ukraine, m...

Final Declaration adopted at the First Ministerial Meeting of the Group of Friends of Neutrality for Peace, Security and Sustainable Development published in the six official UN languages (A/77/778 - see document below) as an official document of the 77th session of the UN General Assembly under agenda item 58 “Peacebuilding and sustaining peace”. The ministerial meeting of the Group of Friends of Neutrality was held in Ashgabat on December 10, 2022. The adopted Declaration consolidates th...

Today, on March 15, 2023, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Myahri Byashimova met with the Country Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) for Turkmenistan Olaf Ronnie Lindstrom, during which issues of cooperation in priority areas were discussed. The parties noted the successful work of UNFPA within the framework of the signed Annual Plans with the relevant ministries and state agencies of Turkmenistan. One of these areas of cooperation was the provision o...

On 15 March 2023 the delegation of Turkmenistan led by Rahimberdi Jepbarov, Chairman of the State Bank for Foreign Economic Affairs of Turkmenistan has held discussions with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director General of the World Trade Organisation and with Xiangchen Zhang, WTO Deputy Director General. During the meetings the Turkmen side has stressed readiness of the Government of Turkmenistan to work with the WTO member states and other interested parties to start the accession process and reite...