On October 22-23, 2018, the delegation of Turkmenistan paid a working visit to Tokyo, capital of Japan.    During the visit, the delegation had a meeting with the head and members of Turkmen-Japanese committee on economic cooperation. In the course of visit, the delegation of Turkmenistan was received by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Moreover, there were bilateral meetings between the heads of foreign ministries, parliaments, and energy, transport, trade and economy sectors of the tw...

Project of the State Committee for Natural Protection and Land Resources carried out with the support of the Global Ecological Fund and the UN Development Programme has started in Turkmenistan. Activities for formation of environmentally friendly urban systems, reduction of green gases emission, introduction of energy saving technologies will be carried out for six years in Ashgabat and Avaza National tourist zone. The Council of the project is comprised of specialists of the Ministries of Mo...

53 transactions were concluded at the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan last week.  Businessmen from Russia, Switzerland, the UAE, the UK, Turkey, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan among others purchased low-sulfur furnace oil and petroleum asphalt produced at the Turkmenbashi complex of oil refineries. Businessmen from Switzerland, Hong Kong, Kazakhstan and others purchased petroleum asphalt produced at the Seydi oil refinery.  In a...

The musical comedy play “Love will save us”, which premiered with great success on the stage of the Mahtumkuli Turkmen Music and Drama Theater, began with a rehearsal. It is hardly to believe that a performance is going on in the first minutes, when a group of young musicians, dressed in the style of the 70s of the last century, noisily occupied places in the orchestra pit. The eccentric-looking director of the House of Culture appeared on the stage in a bright-checkered jacket, and everything f...

On October 19, 2018, there was a meeting with the delegation of the Republic of Turkey headed by Mr. Mehmet Samsar,  Director-General for Consular Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who has arrived in Ashgabat to participate in Turkmen-Turkish consular consultations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan.    During the talks, the parties have noted the positive development of bilateral relations and exchanged views on developing cooperation between consular services of the...

On October 19, 2018, there was a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan with Mr. Issa Ismail Rifae, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in Turkmenistan (with residence in Ankara), who has arrived in Ashgabat to present his credentials.          At the beginning of meeting new Ambassador of Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in Turkmenistan presented the copies of his credentials. Turkmen side congratulated the Ambassador with new appointmen...

On October 16-18, 2018, the sixth meeting of the Turkmen-Saudi Intergovernmental Commission on trade-economic cooperation was held in the central building of the oil and gas complex. A representative delegation headed by the Minister of Commerce and Investment of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Majid bin Abdullah Al Qasabi, arrived in Ashgabat to participate in the work of the commission. The delegations included the heads and representatives of leading sectoral ministries and departments of bot...