Tickets for the upcoming Ashgabat 2017 5th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games will go on sale across the country on Saturday 29 July. With more than 700,000 tickets available for more than 220 sessions, spectators will be able to watch the best athletes from Asia and Oceania compete over 12 days of competition and across 21 sports. All session, including preliminary rounds and medal events, can be found on the Sport Competition Schedule, which the public can reference to choose the events th...

On July 19, 2017 the fourth meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan R.Meredov, the Republic of Azerbaijan E.Mammadyarov and the Republic of Turkey M.Chavushoglu was held in Baku. The main goal of the meeting was the preparation for the Summit of the Heads of the three states, which will be held till the end of this year in Turkmenistan. In this context, the foreign ministers discussed a number of issues related to further cooperation between the three countries and iden...

On July 3, 2017 President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Mohammad Ashraf Ghani arrived in Ashgabat on an official visit. This visit is intended to be another important step on the way to further strengthening and developing traditionally friendly interstate relations. After the official ceremony of the meeting of the President of Afghanistan Mohammad Ashraf Ghani in the Oguzkhan Palace Complex, the leaders of the two countries held one-to-one negotiations. Then the talks continued...

According to the results of the 35th session of the UN Council on Human Rights (UNCHR) held in June 6-23, 2017 in Geneva, Switzerland, the participating States adopted a number of UN documents, including the Joint Statement on behalf of the regional group of countries Asia and the Pacific on the topic "On the costs of violence against women and girls", as well as the resolution of the UN General Assembly on the theme "Realizing the equal enjoyment of the right to education by every girl", accord...

On June 13, 2017, President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov held a meeting with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who arrived in our country on a working visit. During the meeting held with the participation of the delegations of Turkmenistan and the United Nations Organization, the Turkmen leader underlined the particular significance of the visit of the UN Secretary-General in the framework of the 25th anniversary of Turkmenistan’s membership in the United Nations, celebrated...

On June 9, 2017, President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov left for a working visit to the Republic of Kazakhstan, where he was invited as an honored guest to the opening ceremony of the international specialized exhibition "Astana Expo-2017". From the airport the motorcade of the President of Turkmenistan went to the Palace of Independence, where his Kazakh counterpart Nursultan Nazarbayev greeted his colleague with great cordiality. Warmly welcoming the distinguished guest, the...

On June 5, 2017, the three-day Central Asian International Environmental Forum, under the motto "The Initiative for Cooperation on Environment and Sustainable Development in Central Asia", began its work in the hotel "Yildiz" in Ashgabat. Representatives of the Central Asian governments, leaders and representatives of international and regional organizations, diplomatic missions working in Turkmenistan, leading experts in the field of environmental protection, representatives of the ecologica...