On January 10, 2023, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov met with the newly appointed Ambassador of the Kyrgyz Republic to Turkmenistan Azizbek Madmarov. During the conversation, R.Meredov congratulated the Ambassador of Kyrgyzstan on his appointment to a responsible position, wished him success in his diplomatic activities. At the meeting, issues of strengthening relations in various areas of bilateral and multilateral cooperation were considered. The parties...

On January 8-10, 2023, the delegation of Turkmenistan headed by the Chairman of the Mejlis of the Milli Gengesh Gulshat Mammedova participated in the 13th plenary session of the Asian Parliamentary Assembly (APA) in Antalya, Türkiye. Delegations from 27 countries participated in the session, held on the theme "Promoting multilateralism in a changing international dynamic." At the opening ceremony the speeches by the Secretary General of the Asian Parliamentary Assembly Mohammad Reza Majidi...

On January 9, 2023, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov met with the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran for Economic Diplomacy Mahdi Safari in the Foreign Ministry of Turkmenistan. A wide range of issues of bilateral cooperation in the political, diplomatic, trade, economic, cultural and humanitarian spheres was discussed at the meeting. The parties noted the importance of meetings at the highest and high levels in expanding bilateral friendly relations....

The final document of the International Conference "Dialogue is a Guarantee of Peace", held in Ashgabat on December 11, 2022 in the frames of the Ashgabat International Week, was published in the six official languages of the UN (A/77/651) as an official document of the 77th session of the UN General Assembly under paragraph 14 Agenda "Culture of Peace". The document reflects the fundamental goals and principles of the UN Charter, which include obligations to resolve disputes by peaceful mean...

On January 6, 2023, in the framework of the state visit of the President of Turkmenistan to China, the head of state Serdar Berdimuhamedov met with the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of China Li Zhanshu at the Great Hall of the People. During the meeting, the parties exchanged views on a number of key aspects of bilateral cooperation. The significance of the current visit of the head of Turkmenistan to Beijing, undertaken in the year of the 10th anniversa...

On January 6, 2023, President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov met with Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China Li Keqiang in frames of his state visit to China. Expressing sincere gratitude for the warm welcome, the head of Turkmenistan stressed that he perceives his first state visit to China as an event designed to give a new impetus to the strengthening and development of the traditionally friendly and fraternal dialogue between the two countries, initially bui...

Following the negotiations at the highest level on January 6, 2023, a signing ceremony of a solid package of bilateral documents was held in Beijing. President Serdar Berdimuhamedov and Chinese President Xi Jinping signed the Joint Statement of Turkmenistan and the People's Republic of China. In the presence of the heads of the two friendly states, a number of other important documents were signed, aimed to bring the traditional Turkmen-Chinese partnership to a qualitatively new level that...