The award ceremony of valuable gifts to the members of refugee team with participation of the leaders of the Executive Committee of V Asian Games, representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, the State Committee for Sports and Tourism, coaches and members of Turkmenistan and foreign countries’ teams, representatives of domestic and foreign mass media has taken place in the Olympic village.  The action was held at the square of the Olympic village under music and songs,...

On September 19, 2017 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs there was the meeting with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Dominican Republic to India Mr. Frank Hans Dannenberg Castellanos who arrived in Turkmenistan to participate in the opening ceremony of the 5th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games. Expressing sincere gratitude for the warm hospitality, the guest stressed that the Dominican Republic highly appreciates the policy of neutrality and good neighborliness pursued by...

On September 19, 2017 in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan there was a meeting of the Chairman of the State Committee for Sports of Turkmenistan T. Komekov with the Japanese delegation led by the President of the Organizing Committee for the preparation of the Summer Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, the head of the Parliamentary Association of the Japanese-Turkmen Friendship of the Parliament of Japan Endo Toshiaki, who arrived in Ashgabat to take part in the Fifth Asian Indoor and Martia...

On September 18, 2017, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan there was a meeting with members of the delegation of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, led by the Deputy Minister of Culture, Sport and Tourism Le Khan Khai, who arrived to participate in the opening ceremony of the 5 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games. First of all, the guest expressed gratitude to the Turkmen side for the opportunity to the representatives of Vietnam to take part in the opening ceremony of the 5 As...

On September 18, 2017 the press conference for the representatives of the media was held in the Media centre of the Olympic village. Substantive questions of the press conference were aimed at strengthening productive relations, improving the efficiency of joint measures on coverage of sports competitions of the 5th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games.  The meeting participants emphasized that cooperation of Turkmenistan’s mass media representatives with sports press associations, leading jou...

On September 18, 2017 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs there was a meeting on the adoption at the 36th session of the UN Human Rights Council of the Declaration on the Encouragement of valuable contribution of the Refugees Olympic teams to consolidation of peace and human rights. Turkmen diplomats, political scientists, representatives of public organizations, mass media, teachers and students of higher educational institutions took part in the meeting. The fact that Turkmenistan was the in...

Declaration on Encouragement of valuable contribution of the Refugees Olympic teams to consolidation of peace and human rights initiated by President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov was unanimously adopted in Geneva, where 36th session of the United Nations Council for Human Rights is held these days. I was lately joined by Brazil.  29 countries UN members including Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Argentina, Belarus, Brazil, China, Columbia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, France, Georgia, Japan, Kazakhsta...