Pilot-cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko sent a congratulatory letter to the President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov on the occasion of the World Bicycle Day. “The World Bicycle Day, established in 2018 by the United Nations General Assembly upon the initiative of Turkmenistan, became a vivid approval of the governmental policy carried out under your leadership aimed at wide advancement of healthy lifestyle and general promotion of physical culture and sports,” said the cosmonaut in his con...

On May 31, 2019, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan A.N. Aripov was received by the President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov.  The high-ranking guest arrived in Ashgabat to participate to the meeting of the Council of the Heads of the Governments of the Commonwealth of Independent states. During the bilateral talks, the parties exchanged views on further cooperation between Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan in the political, trade, economic, cultural and humanitarian fields...

On the 31st of May 2019, the meeting of the Council of the Heads of Governments of the Commonwealth of Independent States was held in Ashgabat. To attend this meeting, numerous high-level delegations of the states-participants of the CIS arrived to Turkmenistan.  Among the participants, Prime Minister of the Republic of Azerbaijan N.I.Mammadov, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Mher Grigoryan, Prime Minister of the Republic of Belarus S.N.Rumas, Prime Minister of the Republi...

On May 29, 2019, a briefing was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan on the adoption by the UN General Assembly of the Resolution “Cooperation between the United Nations and the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea.” The key officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea, representatives of a number of higher educational institutions of the country, heads and represent...

On May 31, 2019, Ashgabat will host a regular meeting of the Commonwealth of Independent States’ Heads of Government Council within the framework of Turkmenistan's chairmanship in the CIS this year.     Representative delegations from the CIS countries will arrive to the country to participate in this meeting.  As part of this event, meetings of the heads of delegations with the President of Turkmenistan are expected on 30 and 31 May. During the meeting, relevant issues of political, trade...

On the 28th of May 2019, the 85th plenary meeting of the 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly was held in the headquarters of the United Nations in New-York, USA with participation of plenipotentiary representatives of the Organizations’ member-states.  During the meeting, the Resolution on “Cooperation between the United Nations and the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea” initiated by Turkmenistan was adopted by consensus.  21 countries joined the co-sponsorship of the...

The sixth round of the High-level Political and Security Dialogue between the European Union and the countries of Central Asia took place on 28 May 2019 in Brussels, Belgium. The meeting was attended by the Deputy Foreign Ministers of Central Asian countries, as well as the Deputy Foreign Minister of Afghanistan as the guest of honor.  The Turkmen delegation was headed by the Ambassador of Turkmenistan in the Kingdom of Belgium. From the European Union, the Deputy Secretary-General for Politi...