Strengthening rule of law -compliant criminal justice responses to terrorism was the aim of a two-day seminar for over 30 Turkmen practitioners from relevant government agencies and the bar association which concluded on 25 July 2019 in Ashgabat. Organized by the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat jointly with the Action against Terrorism Unit of the OSCE Transnational Threats Department, the seminar focused on good practices detailed in the Global Counterterrorism Forum’s (GCTF) Rabat Memorandum. These...

On the 24th of July 2019, a working meeting was held in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan dedicated to the preliminary outcomes of the visit of the delegation of Turkmenistan to New York on July 16-20, 2019, during which the presentation of the Voluntary National Review on implementing the SDGs in Turkmenistan took place. The heads and staff members of the MFA of Turkmenistan participated to the meeting. During the working session, the preliminary results of the presentation of...

Today, on July 24, 2019, a telephone conversation took place between President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev, during which the Turkmen leader cordially congratulated the head of Uzbekistan on his birthday and wished him good health, inexhaustible courage and success in all his large-scale undertakings. Thanking for the congratulations and kind words, the President of Uzbekistan noted with satisfaction the progressive n...

On the 22nd of July 2019, a meeting was held in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan with the delegation of the Republic of Argentine headed by the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Argentine in Turkmenistan (with the residence in Moscow) Ricardo Ernesto Lagorio who has arrived to Ashgabat on a working visit.   During the meeting, the parties discussed the current state of Turkmen-Argentine relations, particularly in political-diplomatic, as well as trade-economic sph...

On July 20, 2019, the International Exhibition “Health 2019” opened at the Expocenter of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Turkmenistan, within the framework of which a scientific conference on the development of the medical sphere is held. The opening ceremony of the forum began with performances by creative groups that gave a festive mood to the event. Heads of the ministries and sectoral departments of Turkmenistan, representatives of international organizations, the media and foreig...

Turkmenistan’s achievements in immunization have received high recognition by UNICEF. On the 29th of July, 2019, at the international health conference, UNICEF Representative in Turkmenistan Ms. Christine Weigand presented an award letter to the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry for sustaining high immunization rates through the government-financed National Immunization Programme.   “We congratulate Turkmenistan on this milestone. We look forward to continuing our long-standing and frui...

On 19 July 2019, the 29th meeting of the Council on Healthcare Cooperation of the Commonwealth of Independent States was held in the “Archabil” Hotel of Ashgabat. The heads and representatives of the ministries and profile agencies working in the healthcare sphere of the CIS member states, as well as the specialists of the WHO European Regional Office, structural agencies of the UN and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent participated at the meeting. In the beginning...