On October 22, 2019 in the afternoon, the head of Turkmenistan left the Chinzanso Tokyo Hotel for the Emperor’s Palace of Japan. Here, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, along with other invited distinguished guests, took part in the solemn ceremony of Emperor Naruhito’s ascending the throne. Over 2 thousand guests from more than 180 countries arrived to participate in the celebrations in Tokyo. As a rule, heads of the legislative, executive and judicial authorities of Japan take part in th...

On 21 and 22 October, 2019, the OSCE Center in Ashgabat, jointly with the Office of the Coordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities (OCEEA), organized a seminar on institutional and legislative measures to combat corruption in Ashgabat. The seminar was part of the OSCE’s Strengthening Adherence to Good Governance Principles project. The event brought together representatives of different ministries and state bodies, including the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Fin...

On October 21, 2019, the second meeting of the joint Turkmen-Georgian commission on international road transport began in Tbilisi. The Deputy Minister of Industry and Communication of Turkmenistan heads the Turkmen delegation; the Georgian side is headed by the Deputy Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia. The delegations shared information and statistics on trade turnover and volume of road transport between the two countries. A high growth rate in bilateral transport...

On October 21, 2019, a contest for the UN Cup on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals was held among students at school No. 27 of Ak Bugday district of Akhal velayat. The event dedicated to the United Nations Day was attended by the students of the Turkmen State University named after Makhtumkuli, the Turkmen State Institute of Economics and Management, the Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, the International University...

On October 21, 2019 in Tokyo, before the start of the working visit by President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov to Japan, the Turkmen-Japanese business forum was held. In the conference hall of the Shinagawa Prince Hotel, a small exposition of decorative and applied arts products of Turkmenistan was exhibited. The meeting was attended by leaders and leading experts of a number of large Japanese companies working in various industrial sectors, sectors of transport, communications and high technolog...

On October 21, 2019, President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov began a working visit to Japan. The presidential plane landed at Tokyo-Haneda International Airport. Here, the Turkmen leader was received by the officials and members of the government delegation of Turkmenistan. A motorcade of President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov proceeded from the airport to the Chinzanso Tokyo Hotel, where the residence of the Turkmen leader was located during his stay in Tokyo. Within the framewor...

On October 21, 2019, a meeting was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Bosnia and Herzegovina to Turkmenistan (with the residence in Tehran), Mr. Samir Veladziç, who arrived in Ashgabat to present his credentials. At the beginning of the meeting, the parties expressed their commitment to the development of mutually beneficial bilateral relations. Having discussed issues of further development of partnership between t...