Past week at the auctions of the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan 88 transactions were registered.  For the foreign currency businessmen from China bought technical sulphur manufactured at Turkmenbashi oil refineries complex and businessmen from the USA purchased iodine technical and potassium iodide (SC "Turkmenkhimiya"). Besides it, for the foreign currency coloured terry products, wheat flour, confectionery in assortment, cotton yarn, and cotton fibre were realise...

President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov has received Senior Adviser to the President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan on Infrastructure and Technology Mohammad Humayon Qayoumi.  During the meeting, the parties pointed out a fruitful character of the Seventh Regional Economic Conference on Afghanistan (RECCA VII) (held at ministerial level in Ashgabat) that had designated new areas for combined efforts to render considerable assistance to Afghanistan’s economic development, a...

Representatives of the Mejlis, the Turkmen National Institute of Democracy and Human Rights under the President of Turkmenistan, the National Institute of Education, the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry, the public organizations, specialists from several ministries and departments, teachers and students of the institutes of higher education and mass media members attended the event organized by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).  The special emphasis in the report was placed o...

Ashgabat hosted ministerial session of VII Regional Economic Cooperation Conference on Afghanistan (RECCA VII).  The conference in Ashgabat brought together dozens of delegations from foreign countries including Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Australia, Brazil, Great Britain, Germany, Georgia, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Spain, Italy, Kazakhstan, Canada, Qatar, China, Kyrgyzstan, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Norway, UAE, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, USA, Tajikistan, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Ukrain...

Conference hall of the Sport Hotel in the Olympic village of the capital hosted honouring ceremony of Turkmen sambo wrestler Gulbadam Babamuratova who won the gold at the 41st World Sambo Championship in Sochi (Russian Federation). 26 year old Honoured Master of Sports achieved impressive victories in the weight category up to 52 kg.  The sportswoman demonstrated outstanding results in the world arena and has been awarded with the order of Turkmenistan «Garaşsyz Türkmenistana bolan beýik söýg...

President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov visited Ahalteke Equestrian Complex. Recently, the territory of the complex turned into blooming oasis. By the initiative of the Head of the State, National greening programme is carried out in the country. It includes massive plantation of foliar, conifer, fruit and other trees. Woodland park zones are created artound Ashgabat and in the velayats. Green plantations are the living indicator of ecological situation and ecological culture of the society. Man-mad...

The presentation of the book "Turkmenistan is the heart of the Great Silk Road" by President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov took place in the assembly hall of the China University of Petroleum with the participation of Turkmen students, who get education in the higher educational institutions in Beijing.  The representatives of various universities in Turkmenistan, who arrived in Beijing to raise their qualification, and local journalists attended the event, organized by the Embassy of Turkmen...