On May 9-10, 2018, a Coordination Meeting of the Executive Committee of IFAS with international partners on development of programs related to solving the problems of the Aral Sea Basin took place in the conference hall of the hotel "Archabil" in Ashgabat. The main goal of the meeting was to discuss new forms of cooperation between EC IFAS and international partners on development, as well as to establish contacts and intensify the interaction aimed at solving the problems of the Aral Sea Bas...

In the first days of the Great Patriotic War, Chief Pilot of Aeroflot Alexander Golovanov addressed the Supreme Command Headquarter with the proposal to staff the long-range aviation with the pilots of civil aviation fleet. They did not require any additional training. The initiative of Golovanov was approved and shortly after that he was appointed as the commander of long-range aviation. By the end of war, in August 1944, Alexander Golovanov became the Air Chief Marshall.  The war required t...

“I cordially congratulate you on the Day of Victory in the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War - a significant date that occupies a special place in the world history”, said President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov addressing the people of Turkmenistan.  “The Victory Day expresses the people’s aspiration for peace, friendship, humanity, unity and cohesion, and this is the deep meaning of this holiday. The openness, peacefulness, patriotism, fearlessness, courage are the traits inherent in the national m...

On May 8, 2018, OSCE Human Dimension Committee meeting on "Gender Equality" took place in Vienna. The Ombudsman of Turkmenistan Y.Gurbannazarova attended this meeting and presented a report on the gender situation in the country. In her speech, Y.Gurbannazarova informed the meeting about the gender policy of Turkmenistan, equal participation of women in all spheres of socio-political, economic, social and cultural life of the country. In particular, she noted that within the framework of the...

On May 8, 2018, a meeting was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Moldova in Turkmenistan (with residence in Kiev) Mr. Ruslan Bolbochan. During the negotiations, the parties discussed the current state and prospects for the development of cooperation. The participants of the meeting noted the need for intensification of the political dialogue, diplomatic interaction within the framework of internation...

The first issue of the quarterly, scientific-practical magazine "Foreign Policy and Diplomacy of Turkmenistan" prepared by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan has been published this month. The magazine is opened by an article dedicated to one of the main events of 2018 - solemn ceremonies on the occasion of the start of the construction on February 23, 2018 in the Serhetabat district of the Mary province and in the Afghan city of Herat, the Afghan section of the Turkmenistan-Afgh...

Within the framework of the 30th session of the Working Group of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), held in May 2018 in Geneva, Switzerland, the delegation of Turkmenistan, headed by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan V. S. Khadzhiev, took part on May 7, 2018 at the 3rd review of Turkmenistan. In the course of the above-mentioned event, the Turkmen side made a presentation on the main directions of Turkmenistan's policy to implement the commitments undertaken in the fiel...