TURKMEN-PALESTINIAN POLITICAL CONSULTATIONS IN ASHGABAT On May 10, 2018, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan there were political consultations between the foreign ministries of Turkmenistan and Palestine. The Palestinian delegation was headed by Deputy Foreign Minister Mazen Shamia. The parties discussed the current state of relations and outlined the directions for their further expansion. Noting the high level of political and diplomatic cooperation, the sides expressed t...

DELEGATION OF TURKMENISTAN ATTENDED OSCE MEETING ON GENDER EQUALITY 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...

COORDINATION MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR SAVING THE ARAL SEA WITH INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS ON DEVELOPMENT OF PROGRAMS RELATED TO SOLVING THE PROBLEMS OF THE ARAL SEA BASIN 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 w...

MEETING WITH THE AMBASSADOR OF THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA TO DISCUSS PROSPECTS FOR FURTHER COOPERATION 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 fo...

NEXT ISSUE OF THE MAGAZINE "FOREIGN POLICY AND DIPLOMACY OF TURKMENISTAN" HAS BEEN PUBLISHED 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 o...

THE DELEGATION OF TURKMENISTAN PARTICIPATED IN THE 30TH SESSION OF THE THE UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW GROUP 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 pr...

A ROUND TABLE WAS HELD IN BUCHAREST ON THE THEME OF CREATING A MODERN MULTIMODAL TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE On May 7, 2018, the Embassy of Turkmenistan in Romania together with the Diplomatic Institute under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania organized a round table on "Creating a modern multimodal transport infrastructure - the key to success in the revival of the Great Silk Road". The State Secretary of the Ministry of Transport of Romania, Maria Magdalena Grigore, took part as the...