The first International Theater Festival “ABISH ALEMI” was held on October 11-14, 2019 in the Kazakh city of Aktau, which was dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the outstanding Kazakh writer Abish Kekilbaev. Theater groups from Armenia, Georgia, Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan took part in the festival. Turkmenistan was represented at the festival by the State Music and Drama Theater of Lebap Province named after Seyitnazar Seydi. The play “Dayakhatyn”, pre...

On October 14, 2019, political consultations were held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan between the foreign affairs agencies of Turkmenistan and the People's Republic of China at the level of deputy foreign ministers. Chinese delegation was headed by Deputy Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China Le Yucheng. In particular, the parties discussed pressing issues of the regional and international agenda. Speaking about the activation of contacts at the highest levels...

23 transactions have been registered at the trades of the State Commodity and Raw Material Exchange of Turkmenistan last week. For foreign currency, brokers from the United Arab Emirates have procured liquefied gas received from production of synthetic gasoline and representatives of Afghanistan’s business circles – liquefied gas produced by Turkmenbashy Refinery Complex. Colourless sheet glass, cotton yarn and fabrics, cotton gin motes have been sold for foreign currency to the Russian Feder...

On October 12, 2019, in the premises of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, with the participation of the representatives of national and foreign media, as well as heads and representatives of diplomatic missions and international organizations accredited in Turkmenistan, a briefing was held on the meetings of the Council of Foreign Ministers and the Council of Heads of States of the CIS held in Ashgabat on 10 and 11 October, 2019. Besides the Head of the external policy agency o...

The Summit of the Heads of States Council of the Commonwealth of Independent States was held in Ashgabat on October 11, 2019. The President of the Republic of Azerbaijan I.Aliyev, the Prime-minister of the Republic of Armenia N.Pashinyan, the President of the Republic of Belarus A.Lukashenko, the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan K.Tokayev, the President of the Kyrgyz Republic S.Jeenbekov, the President of the Republic of Moldova I.Dodon, the President of the Russian Federation V.Putin,...

On October 10, 2019, the meeting of the Permanent Representative of Turkmenistan to the UN office in Geneva with the newly appointed Director-General of the UN office at Geneva Ms. Tatiana Valovaya took place in the Palace of Nations of Geneva. Firstly, the Permanent Representative of Turkmenistan conveyed the greetings and congratulations on behalf of the leadership of Turkmenistan on the occasion of her appointment to the important diplomatic mission.   During the conversation, the Direc...

On the 10th of October 2019, the delegation of the Republic of Belarus headed by the President A. Lukashenko arrived in Ashgabat to participate in the Session of the Heads of States’ Council of the Commonwealth of Independent States.   In the framework of the visit on October 11, the President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov had a meeting with the President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, during which the parties discussed the current issues of Turkmen-Belarus relat...