An inter-school song and music festival was conducted in Ashgabat dedicated to the International Day of Neutrality. The Ministry of Education and its metropolitan administration organized the event.  The peculiarity of the creative action is that all the songs sounded in foreign languages - English, Russian, German, Chinese, Japanese and French.  The festival involved in its orbit about four hundred children from secondary schools in Ashgabat. They performed with solo and choral number...

XII Forum of Arts and Science Intellectuals of the Commonwealth of Independent States with the participation of Turkmenistan delegation together with the representatives from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Russia has started in Russian capital.  Speaking at the Summit of the Heads of the CIS in Sochi in October of this year, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov called upon the enhancement of mutual trust and initiated the development of the action...

There is certainly a market in every modern city – whether it is big or small. Therefore, it was like this always and everywhere. Since the ancient times, the first cities in the world were formed around the places of trade. Urban marketplaces in Asia and Europe were the special territory, where people met every day not only to sell or buy some goods, but also to catch up with each other's news, exchange opinions, take part in public events - spontaneous or organized ones. Tsar's heralds announc...

What the caravans used to carry along the Great Silk Road? What was huge sacks loaded onto camels filled with? The list of goods made by men’s hands as well as grown and harvested by people is huge indeed. However, the name of the route itself, even though this is modern name, directly indicates that silk was the most valuable item of that list. Light compact material from China and Central Asia, which was on the great demand on the West and cost a lot of money, like nothing else was suitable fo...

I cordially congratulate you on International Neutrality Day, which is celebrated by Turkmenistan this year for the first time together with the whole world community. The neutrality supports successful achievement of humanitarian goals of Turkmen people and entire world community, consolidates pace, friendship and positive relations between the countries and the nations, - congratulation message of President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov says.  Neutral legal status of our independent state, whic...

The UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia hosted the meeting of foreign ministers and their deputies of the region timed to the 10th anniversary of the UNRCCA foundation.  The perspectives of extended cooperation in the region and preventive efforts including under the Action Programme of the UNRCCA in 2018 – 2020 were the subjects of interested exchange of the opinions. In this context, the number of specific proposals on regional cooperation under support of the Unite...

Heads and representatives of national diplomatic corps, foreign departments of Central Asian countries – the Republic of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan, the Republic of Uzbekistan as well as the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and number of other countries took part in the forum held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.  Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General, the Head of the UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia, the Exec...