Having won the Kyrgyzstan Cup holder, Dordoy team (Bishkek), in two matches the Akhal Football Club has successfully passed a first qualifying stage of the Asian Football Confederation Cup tournament.  Having won a match in Bishkek with the score 3:1, the Turkmen team has hosted members of their opponent Kyrgyz football team in Balkanabat, who needed to score at least three goals.  The guests have been making active attacks from the first minutes. The whole first half was full of dangerous...

Ashgabat’s Ýyldyz Hotel has hosted a Board meeting of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea (IFAS), co-organized by the IFAS Executive Committee and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan in cooperation with the Transboundary Water Management in Central Asia Program of the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) and the Regional Environmental Center for Central Asia.  Among those in attendance were the IFAS Board members, IFAS Executive Committee members, as well...

Steadily following the course of fundamental reforms, Turkmenistan has entered new stage of its history in 2017, which was formulated by the President of the country Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov as a period of steadfast development and further successful implementation of large-scale reforms.  The Head of the State outlined further consolidation of fundamental basis of the country, improvement of its international authority and considerable growth of economic potential among priority directions...

On January 29, 2018, a meeting was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of Bangladesh to Turkmenistan (with residence in Tehran) Mr. Majibur Rahman Buyan who arrived in Ashgabat on a working visit. Within the framework of the talks, issues of bilateral cooperation between Turkmenistan and the People's Republic of Bangladesh were discussed. The sides, noting the role of cooperation within the framewor...

On January 29, 2018, the signing of the "Agreement between the Government of Turkmenistan and the United Nations Development Program about UN premises" was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan. The ceremony was attended by the heads and staff of the UNDP office and the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) in Turkmenistan, as well as the staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan. The Turkmen side stressed that one of the main directions of foreign policy of Neutral Tur...

Successfully acting at prestigious international tournaments, our athletes in the beginning of year have secured national sports with medals of various coins.  Our national kickboxing team took part in the open championship of Finland which was held in Helsinki. For awards more than hundred sportsmen, including from Sweden, Lithuania, Estonia and other countries competed.  At that tournament our compatriots won 12 medals: five – gold, three "silver" and four "bronze".  In the kickboxing...

Past week at the auctions of the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan 29 transactions were registered.  For the foreign currency businessmen from Great Britain, the United Arab Emirates and Afghanistan bought aviation kerosene and hydro-refined diesel fuel manufactured at Turkmenbashi oil refineries complex. Besides it, for the foreign currency production of textile industry in an assortment, cotton yarn, economic cotton wool and cotton fibre were realized. The countries...