On March 12, 2018 in Ashgabat, a regular meeting of representatives of the Caspian states began to discuss the draft Agreement on trade and economic cooperation between the Caspian states. The meeting was organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, the Ministry of Finance and Economy and the State Enterprise for Caspian Sea Affairs under the President of Turkmenistan. Heads, leading specialists and experts of the relevant ministries and departments of the Republic of Azerbaijan...

On March 12, 2018, the thirteenth session of the joint Turkmen-Iranian intergovernmental commission for consular, border and customs issues began its work at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan under the chairmanship of the deputy foreign ministers of the two countries. Leaders and representatives of the relevant ministries and law enforcement agencies took part in its work. The participants of the meeting analyzed the implementation of the decisions of the twelfth meeting of the...

On March 9, 2018, in conjunction with the Oxford Society of the Silk Road, a conference and an official reception was held in the premises of Lady Margaret Hall College of the University of Oxford, dedicated to the role of Turkmenistan in the history and restoration of the Great Silk Road, as well as to the importance of the transport sector in the country's foreign policy strategy. The event was attended by teachers and students of such higher educational institutions in the UK as University...

On March 7, 2018, the fifth meeting of the joint Turkmen-Tatarstan Working Group on Trade-Economic, Scientific-Technical and Cultural Cooperation was held in Ashgabat. Heads and representatives of leading ministries, industry departments and enterprises of Turkmenistan and the Republic of Tatarstan took part in it. The meeting was chaired from Turkmen side by the Minister of Finance and Economy of Turkmenistan B. Bazarov, from the Tatarstan side by the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of...

On March 5-6, 2018 the next, VII Turkmen-German health forum was held in Berlin, where the results of bilateral cooperation in the field of practical medicine were discussed and new directions for the future were considered. Special attention this time was given to the questions of orthopedics, including children's, and physiotherapy. Reports were presented on the state of the given directions of medicine in Turkmenistan and Germany, the preventive activity was highlighted, the modern solutio...

On March 6, 2018, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan met with the First Deputy Chairman of the Executive Committee - the Executive Secretary of the CIS V.Guminsky, who arrived in the Turkmen capital at the head of the mission of CIS observers to monitor the election campaign of the upcoming parliamentary elections. The main topic of discussions was preparations for the forthcoming elections in Turkmenistan on March 25, 2018 of the deputies of the Mejlis of Turkmenistan. Noting th...

On March 6, 2018, a meeting was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan with the delegation of the Russian Federation led by the Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Alexander Gruzdev who arrived in Ashgabat to attend the fifth meeting of the High-Level Group on Trade and Investment Support within the framework of the Intergovernmental Turkmen -Russian Commission on Economic Cooperation. During the meeting, the parties discussed the results of the...