43 transactions have been registered at the trades of the State Commodity and Raw Material Exchange of Turkmenistan last week. For foreign currency, entrepreneurs from UAE, Estonia, Afghanistan and other countries purchased gasoline and diesel fuel produced by Turkmenbashy Refinery Complex. Businessmen from UAE also bought carbamide (State Concern Turkmenhimiya). In addition for foreign currency, motor vehicles, transparent sheet glass, Portland cement, cotton yarn was sold to the customers f...

On December 7, 2018 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan there was a meeting with Japanese delegation, led by the head of the Direction for International projects of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry of Japan Takasi Yosioka, who has arrived to Ashgabat on a working visit. During the meeting both sides noted the significant reinforcement of cooperation between Turkmenistan and Japan. They also stopped on a positive development and strategically character of bilateral relation...

On December 7, 2018 at the capital’s hotel “Yildyz” there has finished the work of the international conference on ministers’ level “Importance of the Great Silk Road: present and future development”. During the conference there were discussed the following themes: “From Historical Routes to Modern Highways: Revival of the Great Silk Road”, “Shared Heritage and Plural Identities along the Silk Road” and “Spreading of Culture through Commerce along the Great Silk Road”. The conference, which w...

On December 6-7, 2018 in Ashgabat, the Government of Turkmenistan in cooperation with UNESCO is organizing an International Conference on «Importance of the Great Silk Road: Present and Future Development». The conference is expected to be attended by high-level representatives. The conference will be held in the form of the sessions, the purpose of which are to strengthen intercultural dialogue, peace and cooperation in order to achieve the UN Agenda 2030, uncover geo-economic potential, pro...

Architectural exhibition organized by the Ministry of COnsruction and Architecture was opened in the exhibition hall of the State Art Academy. Students and lecturers of profile universities, State Art Academy, members of the Union of Architects of Turkmenistan, the UIET as well as professional art studios presented their works at the exhibition.  One of important goals of the exhibition is to reveal new trends and directions in works of national architects who actively participate in project...

On December 6, 2018, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov visited the Russian Federation on a working visit to attend an informal meeting of the heads of CIS member states. President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov proceeded to the Boris Yeltsin Library from the St. Petersburg International Airport, where a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council was held under the chairmanship of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. After mutual greetings and traditional photo-sharing...

I extend to you my congratulations on the opening of the International Conference “Important of the Great Silk Road: Present and Future Development”! I trust that this forum will play an important role in the extensive research of the history of the Road and become an effective platform to define its present and future development, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov states in his Address.  In 2018, our country celebrates the slogan “Turkmenistan: Heart of the Great Silk Road”. Major works th...