The Turkmen delegation, composed of representatives of the State Committee on Television, Radio Broadcasting and Cinematography, took part in the 54th General Assembly of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU), which was held in Sichuan, People’s Republic of China. The forum was attended by delegates from more than 200 TV and radio broadcasting companies-members of the Union and other media. The main tasks of the meeting were to identify opportunities for expanding partnerships, exchange o...

Power engineers from Turkmenistan are working on increasing power supply to Afghanistan. At present, according to the previously signed contract, the neighboring country annually receives 700 million kilowatt hours of electric energy through two electric power lines, Ymamnazar–Andkhoy and Serhetabat–Herat–Torghundi. Furthermore, it is planned to work together to supply energy to Badghis and Jowzjan provinces. As is known, for this purpose, an Agreement was signed on 3 July 2017 between...

Outcomes of the mission of International Monetary Fund was reported during the session of the Cabinet of Ministers on November 10 of this year. The Fund gave high remark to the development of national economy what became another evidence of the efficiency of the Government course of President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov. IMF communication prepared by the experts on this account says that during the visit of the delegation of this competent financial delegation chaired by Mr Martin Sommer to Ash...

On November 9, 2017, a meeting was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Hungary at the level of deputy foreign ministers of Turkmenistan and Hungary. During the meeting, the sides discussed the development of bilateral relations, expansion of cooperation within the framework of international organizations, in particular within the framework of the UN, OSCE and the EU, and expressed satisfaction with the mutual support of international initiatives of each other within various internation...

The Research guidance centre on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which was recently opened in the Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, held the first training course that brought together the representatives of the Democratic and Agrarian political parties as well as the Party of industrialists and entrepreneurs of Turkmenistan.  Among the trainers at the centre are the experts of the United Nations Organization, the UN Development...

During working trip to Balkan Velayat, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov inspected the construction of new International seaport in the city of Turkmenbashy. As is known, Turkmenistan having favourable geo-economic location pays utmost attention to the realization of its transit and transport potential as an important factor that supports successful solution of the objectives for rapid rates of the industrialization of the country, diversification of national economy, development of fruitfu...

''Knowledge is the invaluable wealth of our people, accumulated over the thousands of years, passed from generation to generation, the source of our people's life foundations, culture and experience. Therefore, when resolving the problems of Turkmenistan's progressive development, increasing the country's competitiveness in the world political, economic and cultural space, the emphasis is primarily placed on investments into the system of education and training of specialists, who are familiar w...