Best practices in countering money laundering through offshore zones were shared at an OSCE-supported seminar for representatives from Turkmenistan’s financial, law enforcement and supervisory bodies, several commercial banks and other relevant agencies, which took place in Ashgabat from 11 to13 October 2017. The three-day event addressed the international legislative provisions, standards and tools available to identify companies registered in territories and jurisdiction with special taxati...

On October 13, 2017, at the Institute for International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan took part the Academic Forum held within the framework of the VII Ministerial Conference on Regional Economic Cooperation for Afghanistan (RECCA). Representatives of relevant ministries and departments, employees of the diplomatic service of Turkmenistan, as well as heads of higher educational institutions of Turkmenistan and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Director of Int...

Representatives of ministries dealing with transport logistics, finance institutions, the State Customs and State Border Services, the Union of Entrepreneurs and Industrialists, and other state bodies participated in an OSCE-organized seminar on facilitating the development of secure national transport and trade infrastructures that took place in Ashgabat on 10 and 11 October 2017. The OSCE Centre in Ashgabat organized the two-day seminar to enhance the participants’ awareness about internati...

In Ashgabat, the Public Organizations Center hosted a presentation of President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov's book "Turkmenistan is the heart of the Great Silk Road". Representatives of public organizations, mass media, cultural figures and masters of arts, elders and students took part in the celebration. As noted during the presentation, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov's new work allows objectively assess the historical path of the Turkmen, get acquainted with their national and cultur...

The Turkmen capital hosted an opening of the Turkmen-Chinese Research and Innovation Forum “Innovations, new technologies and issues of their manufacturing application”, organized by the Academy of Sciences of Turkmenistan and the P.R.C. Ministry of Science and Technology. Opening of the conference took place in the Center of STA technologies. The forum’s purpose is interchange of experience and search of new opportunities for cooperation between scientists from Turkmenistan and P.R.C. in the...

President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov took part in the next meeting of the Council of the CIS Heads of States held in Sochi. Before the start of the forum there was a ceremony of joint photographing of Heads of the Commonwealth states participating in the Summit in the Congress Center of the "Radisson Blue Resort & Congress Center". Then a session of the CIS Council of Heads of States was opened in the Small Conference Room of the Congress Center in a narrow composition. O...

President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov arrived to Sochi (the Russian Federation) on a working visit to take part in a meeting of the CIS Council of the Heads of State. From the airport, the Turkmen leader headed to the Congress Centre in the Radisson Blu Resort & Congress Centre Hotel, located on the picturesque coast of the Black Sea, where President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov held a meeting with President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. Cordially gre...