On January 13, 2018, a meeting with the new Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Korea Mr. Jin Ki Hoon was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan. During the meeting, the sides exchanged views on the current state of relations and discussed further intensification of cooperation between Turkmenistan and the Republic of Korea. Speaking about the high achievements in the political sphere, the parties expressed their commitment to further strengthening...

Past week at the auctions of the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan 22 transactions were registered.  For the foreign currency jeans products, cotton yarn, cotton-fibre and also reinforcement rods were realised. The countries-buyers: Russia, the United Arab Emirates, Switzerland, Afghanistan, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan and others. The total sum of transactions exceeded 31 million 136 thousand US dollars.  For the manat businessmen from Russia and Pakistan purchased cotton...

Turkmenistan is preparing for the EXPO-2020 Universal Exposition that will be held in Dubai, UAE. As reported by Vice-Premier, O.Gurbannazarov, at the Cabinet session, the Turkmen side has engaged with the EXPO-2020 Organizational Committee to prepare the national exposition to be presented at the global expo that will take place from 20 October 2020 to 10 April 2021 under the slogan “Connecting Minds, Creating the Future”.  In this regard, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov has noted that p...

At the Government session held on 12 January, the Speaker of the National Parliament, Akja Nurberdiyeva, reported on preparation of our country’s delegation to attend the 7th Conference of the Muslim Women Parliamentarians of the Parliamentary Union of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the 13th session of this international structure that will take place in Iran.  In this regard, the head of state mentioned the importance of making effective use of possibilities of parliamentary dip...

On 15-16 January, the delegation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will make a working visit to Islamabad where the Turkmen-Pakistani foreign policy consultations will take place. Issues of development of the interstate relations and the work of the bilateral Intergovernmental Commission will be placed on the meeting’s agenda. Special emphasis will be placed on implementation of the Turkmenistan–Afghanistan–Pakistan–India pipeline project and other important joint projects, particularly, those...

President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov received Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malaysia Dato Sri Anifah Aman.  Having expressed the gratitude for cordial welcome on Turkmen land, the guest conveyed the greetings of the leaders of Malaysia who addressed sincere wishes of happiness and prosperity to the President and people of our country.  It was highlighted that Malaysia pays great attention to the development of cooperation with Turkmenistan, which is thought to be one of the important and p...

On 11 January 2018 political consultations between the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan and Malaysia were held in Ashgabat. The delegation from Malaysia was led by Foreign Minister Dato Sri Anifah Aman. During the meeting the issues of development of cooperation in the political, trade-economic, cultural-humanitarian spheres, as well as in the spheres of energy, transport, education and tourism were discussed. Noting successful development of bilateral relations in all areas of m...