A HIGH-LEVEL MEETING ON THE UN GLOBAL COUNTER-TERRORISM STRATEGY IN CENTRAL ASIA WAS HELD IN ASHGABAT On April 30, 2018, in Ashgabat, the High-Level Meeting "Towards a Comprehensive Implementation of the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy in Central Asia" was held, and the third phase of a joint project supporting the Joint Action Plan for Central Asia (SAP) was launched. The event was organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan and the United Nations Regional Center for...

Sport events with competitions in table tennis, chess and draughts took place on April 28, 2018. The sports events organized by the Embassy of Turkmenistan in the Republic of Korea were held under the motto «Health and Happiness» within the framework of the month of mass sports, physical culture and social and cultural events annually held on the initiative of the President of Turkmenistan. The event was attended by students from Turkmenistan, as well as a number of other countries, studyi...

On April 26-27, 2018 in Ashgabat, a regular meeting of authorized representatives of the Caspian states was held, organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Finance and Economics and the State Enterprise for Caspian Sea Affairs under the President of Turkmenistan. Now in its fourth year, the meeting of experts from Turkmenistan, Russia, Azerbaijan, Iran and Kazakhstan was held to finalize a draft Agreement on trade and economic cooperation between the five Caspian Sea litto...

On April 26, 2018, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan the political consultations had been held between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan and the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland. The Swiss delegation was headed by Ambassador Nicolas Brühl, Assistant State Secretary for Europe, Central Asia and OSCE of FDFA of Switzerland. During the consultations, issues of bilateral relations in the field of political contacts, interparliamentary interaction...

On April 26, 2018, a meeting has been held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan with the new Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in Turkmenistan (with residence in Moscow) Mr. Ngo Duc Manh. During the talks, noting that one of the important priorities of Turkmenistan's foreign policy is the activation of a full-scale partnership with the countries of South-East Asia and the Pacific, the Turkmen side expressed its desire to develop bi...

Indicators of money laundering, terrorism financing and corruption and best practices for interagency co-operation were discussed at an OSCE-organized seminar that concluded on 25 April 2018 in Ashgabat. The two-day event brought together some 35 officials representing the State Service of Turkmenistan on Countering Economic Crimes, the Ministry of Finance and Economy, financial institutions, law enforcement bodies and real estate and audit companies. International experts from Latvia and...

The exhibition "Margiana - the Kingdom of the Bronze Age on the Territory of Turkmenistan" opened in the New Museum on the famous Museum Island in the center of Berlin. The exhibits from the museum collections of our country for the first time are presented abroad. This became possible thanks to the support of President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and the adoption of the “Law on the Protection, import and export of movable values ​​of the national historical and cultural heritage”, which came into...