Today, on December 3, 2019, a meeting was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan with Ms. Liliya Burunchuk, Regional Director for Central Asia of the World Bank, who arrived in Ashgabat on a working visit. During a constructive conversation, the parties, expressing gratitude for an active position in fulfilling common goals in various areas of bilateral cooperation, discussed pressing issues of multilateral cooperation. As is known, Turkmenistan presides over the Internati...

On December 2, 2019, the 5th Inter-Parliamentary Meeting of Turkmenistan-EU was held in Brussels, in which a representative delegation of the Mejlis of Turkmenistan took part. The chair of the European Parliament delegation, F. Martusciello, and the members of the Turkmen delegation attended the IPM working session. The parties considered the current state and prospects for the development of multilateral partnership of the parties in the framework of priority projects and strategies. The imp...

Today, on December 1, 2019,  a meeting between the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan R. Meredov and the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Turkmenistan, Katsumata Takahiko was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan. During the meeting, the Ambassador of Japan was handed a letter from the President of Turkmenistan addressed to the Emperor of Japan Naruhito with thanks for the invitation to take part in the ceremony of the accession of the Empero...

On November 29-30, 2019, the fourth meeting of the participants of the international exhibition EXPO 2020, which will be held for the first time in the African, Middle Eastern and South Asian regions, was held in Dubai, UAE. A delegation headed by the Minister of Trade and Foreign Economic Relations of Turkmenistan took part in the event from Turkmenistan. As part of this event, the Turkmen delegation held a meeting with the Executive Director of EXPO 2020 Najib Mohammed Al Ali, during whi...

On November 30, 2019, Ashgabat hosted sports competitions in chess and badminton between diplomats of diplomatic missions and representative offices of international organizations accredited in the country and employees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, dedicated to the International Day of Neutrality. According to the results of the chess tournament held at the Ashgabat specialized chess school, representatives of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Turkmenistan won 1s...

On November 29, 2019, the meeting of the technical groups on the Confidence Building Measures – Regional Infrastructure of the member states of the “Istanbul Process” on cooperation on Afghanistan was held in the hotel “Yildiz” of Ashgabat. The heads and representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, OSCE Centre in Ashgabat, authorized representatives of the “Istanbul Process” participating states, as well as the international organizations supporting the given initiative...

On November 29, 2019, in the morning, the President of Turkmenistan proceeded to the Kuksaroý Palace, which became the venue for the official events of the Summit. The first President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, the President of the Kyrgyz Republic Sooronbai Jeenbekov and the President of the Republic of Tajikistan Emomali Rakhmon also arrived in Tashkent to participate in the Consultative Meeting of the Heads of States of Central Asia. After the traditional photograph...