On the 19th of April 2019, a trilateral meeting on energy cooperation between Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan and Turkey was held in Istanbul. At the meeting, Turkmenistan was represented by Shahym Abdrahmanov, Chairman of the State Corporation “Turkmengeologiya,” Azerbaijan was represented by the Minister of Energy Parviz Shahbazov, while Turkey was represented by the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Fatih Donmez. During the meeting, the issues related to the current state and perspectiv...

On the 19th of April 2019, a meeting was held in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan with the delegation of the CIS Executive Committee, headed by the First Deputy Chairman of the CIS Executive Committee – Executive Secretary V.A.Guminskiy, who has arrived to Turkmenistan on a working visit. In the beginning of the meeting, the guest expressed gratitude to the Turkmen side for hospitality and noted that the CIS Executive Committee highly appraises the responsible approach of Turkm...

On April 18, 2019, the Days of Culture of Saudi Arabia were solemnly opened in Ashgabat, organized by the Ministry of Culture of Turkmenistan and the Ministry of Media of Saudi Arabia. The opening ceremony was attended by the representatives of relevant ministries and departments of the country, creative intellectuals, diplomatic missions and international organizations accredited in Turkmenistan, as well as media representatives, teachers and university students. During the speech at the...

On April 18, 2019 President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov arrived at the international airport of Turkmenbashi. After some time, an airliner of the President of the Republic of Korea landed in the airport of the seaside city, decorated on the occasion of a momentous event with the State flags of the two countries. The distinguished guest was given proper honors. The President of Turkmenistan warmly welcomed his colleague. From the airport, a motorcade of heads of states drove for...

On the 18th of April 2019, political consultations between Turkmenistan and Mongolia on the level of deputy ministers of foreign affairs were held in the premises of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan.  The guest delegation was headed by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia Ms.Batmunkh Battsetseg, who has arrived to Ashgabat on a working visit.    During the meeting, the parties expressed interest in organizing consultations between the ministries of foreign affairs...

The state visit of the President of the Republic of Korea Moon Jae-in to Turkmenistan has started on the 16th of April 2019, in the framework of his tour of the Central Asian countries.   On April 17, 2019, after the official meeting ceremony and photographing in front of the state flags of Turkmenistan and the Republic of Korea, the President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov invited the President of the Republic of Korea Moon Jae-in to the “Oguzhan” Presidential Palace premises wher...

Some 200 representatives of Central Asian and other OSCE participating States and Partners for Co-operation, as well as experts from international organizations, attended on April 17, 2019 in Ashgabat an OSCE high-level regional conference on countering terrorist financing and organized crime. The Conference was organized by the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat, the OSCE Transnational Threats Department (TNTD) and the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities (OCEEA), in...