On August 1, 2018, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan there was a meeting with the delegation of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives of the US Congress headed by the policy adviser Everett Price. At the beginning of the meeting, noting the productive outcome of the joint work in enhancing bilateral relations between Turkmenistan and the United States of America, the sides expressed interest in their further diversification. Within the framework of...

Representatives of the State Environmental Committee on Environmental Protection and Land Resources of Turkmenistan, the Mejlis (parliament), Ministry of Justice and other relevant agencies of Turkmenistan discussed the development of national environmental legislation at an OSCE-organized seminar held on 30 and 31 July 2018 in Ashgabat. The seminar aimed to provide insights into international legislative provisions and standards in the area of environmental protection and to discuss possible...

On July 31, 2018, a delegation of Turkmenistan headed by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs arrived in Manama to conduct political consultations between Turkmenistan and the Kingdom of Bahrain. The delegation of Bahrain was headed by the Deputy Foreign Minister for International Affairs, Dr. Sheikh Abdullah bin Ahmed bin Abdullah Al Khalifa. The agenda of the consultations included a wide range of issues related to the priority areas of bilateral cooperation. During the meeting, the parti...

On July 30, 2018, the third meeting of the intergovernmental Turkmen-Kyrgyz commission for trade-economic, scientific-technical and humanitarian cooperation was held in Ashgabat in the premises of the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Turkmenistan. The commission was attended by the heads and representatives of the leading ministries, departments and private entities of the two states. The chairman of the Kyrgyz part of the commission was the Minister of Economy of the Kyrgyz Repub...

On July 30, 2018, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan there was a meeting with the new Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Mr. Zhandos Asanov. During the meeting, the sides exchanged views on the current state of relations and discussed issues of further intensification of cooperation between Turkmenistan and the Republic of Kazakhstan. Noting the dynamic development of political and diplomatic interaction, the sides discussed issues of c...

A briefing was held at the Embassy of Turkmenistan in the Republic of Korea on July 27, 2018 with the main topic of forthcoming international rally Amul-Hazar in September, as also known as, "Turkmen Desert Race 2018" according to the international classification. In addition to representatives of Korea’s mass media, officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Secretariat of the Korea-Central Asia Cooperation Forum, the Friendship Association between Korea and Central Asian countries, re...

On July 25-26, 2018, political consultations between the ministries of foreign affairs of Turkmenistan and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea had been held in Pyongyang. From the Turkmen side, the political consultations were headed by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan V.Hajiyev and from the North Korean side - Deputy Foreign Minister of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Sin Hong Chol. During the meeting, the parties discussed a wide range of issues of b...