Within the framework of the month of sports events under the motto «Health and Happiness", held annually in the country, it has become a tradition to organize sports tournaments in various sports with the participation of the teams of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and diplomatic missions accredited in Ashgabat. This year dozens of representatives and teams competed in such sports as table tennis, chess, volleyball and mini-football. Competitions on table tennis took place in the sports c...

On April 20, 2018 the XI International duet competition "Songs that unite us" had been held in the Palace of Culture of the Minsk Tractor Plant. Vocal duets from 12 countries (the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the People's Republic of China, Republic of Latvia, Republic of Lithuania, Poland, the Russian Federation, Romania, Republic of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Ukraine) took part in the competition. In order to promote the rich culture and nationa...

The first in Central Asia interagency consultative meeting was held in Ashgabat on the development of the Regional Program for the Protection of the Environment for Sustainable Development. The organizers of the event are ICSD IFAS, the State Committee for Environmental Protection and Land Resources with the support of the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ). The meeting was attended by representatives of ministries and departments, which formed the national working group on th...

On April 18, 2018, bilateral consultations on consular issues at the level of the Deputy foreign ministers were held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, with the participation of the representatives of relevant departments of Turkmenistan and the Russian Federation. The Russian delegation was headed by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs E.Ivanov. Noting the positive dynamics of the development of bilateral relations in the political, trade-economic and cultural-humanitarian sp...

The development of a road map on solar energy in Turkmenistan was the focus of an OSCE-supported discussion in Ashgabat on 17 April 2018 for officials from the Ministry of Energy, the Ministry of Finance and Economy, the Institute of Solar Energy of the Academy of Science of Turkmenistan, the State Committee for Environment Protection and Land Resources, professors from the Mary Turkmen State Energy Institute and representatives of other relevant institutions and nature protection public organiz...

On April 17, 2018, the delegation of Turkmenistan headed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan R.O. Meredov, took part in the meeting of the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) in Dushanbe. During the meeting, the Foreign Ministers of ECO member states discussed the status of implementation of ECO projects and programs, the relationship of the ECO Secretariat with international organizations, the activities of specialized agencie...

On April 16, 2018, the seventh meeting of the Intergovernmental Turkmen-Romanian Commission for Economic and Scientific-Technical Cooperation was held in Ashgabat. The meeting was attended by heads and representatives of leading ministries and industry departments of the two states. The co-chairman of the commission from the Romanian side was the Minister of Business Environment, Trade and Entrepreneurship of Romania Stefan Radu Oprea. At the beginning of the meeting, the parties gave an o...