On March 15, 2017, President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov paid a state visit to the State of Qatar. From the international airport of Doha, the motorcade of the President of Turkmenistan went to the official residence reserved for the visit, which was accommodated in the hotel "St.Regis Doha". After a while, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov left for the Palace of the Emir of the State of Qatar. On the square in front of the Palace, the head of Turkmenistan was warmly and co...

On March 6, 2017 the state visit of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan to Turkmenistan started.          In the morning the high guest proceeded from his official residence to the centre of the city where the Independence square is situated. The official welcome ceremony was held for the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev, at the Independence Square in Ashgabat. President of Turkmenistan, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, welcomed his colleague at the venue. Guard of...

Today, on the first of March, 2017 President of Turkmenistan left for Islamabad on a working visit to participate in the XIII Summit of the Heads of the States of the Economic Cooperation Organization member-countries. Current meeting of the Heads of States and the Governments, high-rank representatives of the ECO members and international organizations will be important phase in the activity of the Organization for analyses of the past work and definition of perspective future directions....

On January 20, 2017 the Embassy of Turkmenistan in Islamic Republic of Pakistan organized Briefing on key events in the history of Turkmenistan to be held in 2017. Briefing was held at Marriott Hotel in Islamabad. At the beginning of said event there was demonstrated promo-video of forthcoming V Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games to be held on 17-27 September, 2017 in Ashgabat. During his speech Ambassador of Turkmenistan to Pakistan H.E. Mr. Atadjan Movlamov briefed the large-scale event...

In connection with the posted content on the official website of the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC), the following is noted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan. Company’s message has tendentious and biased nature, is considered by us as an attempt to mislead all of us, regarding to the debt repayment obligations of the Company to the Turkmen side. In particular, the statements about the alleged violations of the contract from  State Concern «Turkmengaz», related to the...

The 27th session if the Energy Charter Conference, where Turkmenistan was announced as the chairing country if this large international organization, was held in Tokyo. This is another evidence of high authority of our country in international arena and universal support of progressive foreign policy of President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, which main aspect is international energy cooperation. This again expressively indicates that energy diplomacy of Turkmenistan, which was always disting...

In the last days contradictory information started to circulate in the mass media of Iran and other states concerning Turkmen-Iranian relations in the gas sphere.  Some of them allegedly state about “unexpected and inconsistent with bilateral agreement” termination of natural Turkmen gas supplies to Iran as of January 1st 2017.  On the contrary, in other publications it is noted that Iran has signed a five year contract with Turkmenistan on the supply of Turkmen gas. In this regard, the Minis...