On July 10, 2018, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan there was a meeting with the delegation of the Kyrgyz Republic led by Deputy Foreign Minister Dinara Kemelova, who arrived in the Turkmen capital to participate in the European Union-Central Asia and Afghanistan High-Level Dialogue on Politics and Security.     During the meeting, the sides, noting the importance of expanding the political dialogue, discussed a number of issues dealing with various areas of bilateral coopera...

On July 9, 2018 High-level Dialogue of the European Union-Central Asia and Afghanistan on issues of politics and security has been held in Ashgabat. The meeting was held at the level of deputy foreign ministers. The delegation of the European Union at the meeting was headed by Jean Christophe Belliard, Deputy Secretary-General for Political Affairs of the European External Relations Service. The agenda of the meeting included issues of countering international and regional threats to secur...

On July 5, 2018, a briefing was held in the premises of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan devoted to the issues of familiarization with the international car rally (Turkmen Desert Race) "Amul - Khazar 2018" in Turkmenistan. The event was organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan in conjunction with the National Olympic Committee, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs and the Motor Sport Federation of Turkmenistan. The briefing w...

On July 2-3, 2018, the delegation of Turkmenistan, headed by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, S.G. Berdimuhamedov was on a working visit to Vienna, Austria. Within the framework of this visit, the delegation of Turkmenistan had separate meetings with the UN Deputy Secretary General, the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Yuri Fedotov, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano, the Executive Secretary o...

On July 2, 2018, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan hosted political consultations between the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan and Romania. The Romanian delegation was led by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania Teodor Melescanu. In accordance with the agenda of the consultations, the sides considered issues of mutually beneficial bilateral cooperation in all spheres, in particular, in the political and trade-economic areas of cooperation. In this regard, noti...

On June 28, 2018, at the joint meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers and the State Security Council of Turkmenistan, the Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers, the Minister of Foreign Affairs reported on preparations for the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development under the aegis of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), scheduled for July this year in New York. As is known, this month our country was elected to the membership of ECOSOC for the period of 2019-2021. By...

On June 25, 2018, the UN Human Rights Council (UNHCR), at the 38th session held in Geneva, Switzerland, adopted the Joint Statement on encouraging the protection of cultural heritage along the Great Silk Road with a view to promote universal respect for cultural rights. The following 24 states along with Turkmenistan became the co-sponsors of this Joint Statement: Afghanistan, Albania, Armenia, Bangladesh, Belarus, Georgia, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Kazakhstan, Cambodia, Canada, China, th...