TURKMEN-AFGHAN TALKS HELD IN HERAT On June 16-17, 2019, the Turkmen delegation headed by the Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan arrived on a working visit to the city of Herat, the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. The Turkmen delegation had a meeting with the Advisor to the President of Afghanistan on infrastructure, acting Minister of Finance, and co-chairman of the Afghan part of the Intergovernmental Commission on trade-economic...

AMBASSADOR OF THE REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA STARTED HIS DIPLOMATIC MISSION IN TURKMENISTAN On June 17, 2019, a meeting was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Slovenia in Turkmenistan (with residence in Moscow) Branko Rakowets, who is starting his diplomatic mission in Turkmenistan. At the beginning of the meeting, the Ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia presented the copies of his credentials.  Cong...

TURKMEN HANDMADE CARPETS STORE OPENED IN DUBAI, UAE On June 16, 2019 in the city of Dubai, UAE, the grand opening of the Turkmen handmade carpets store was held in the Al Fattan Marine Towers shopping center. The event was attended by the Turkmen delegation consisting of the representatives of the Ministry of Textile Industry, as well as the representatives of the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Turkmenistan headed by the Deputy Minister of Trade and Foreign Economic Relations...

A VISIT OF THE DELEGATION OF TURKMENISTAN TO AUSTRIA On June 13-14, 2019, in the city of Vienna, the Austrian Repubic there was the Tenth session of the Turkmen-Austrian Joint Commission. The session was attended by the members of Turkmen and Austrian Commission members, as well as the representatives of organizations and companies of both sides. The sides discussed issues on the bilateral cooperation, which was included to the agenda of the tenth session of the Commission. Issues of imple...

On June 14, 2019 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan there was a meeting with the delegation, headed by Nicolas Fleury, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) operations coordinator for Europe and Central Asia, who has arrived to Ashgabat on a working visit. At the beginning of the meeting there was a brief overview of the current activities of the ICRC in the world and around the region. Then the sides exchanged their views on the global and regional issues of hum...

On June 13, 2019 there was a ceremony in Paris of presenting the accreditation letter to the Director-General of the United Nation Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Ms. Audrey Azoulay by the Ambassador of Turkmenistan S.Jumaev, accrediting him as the Permanent Representative of Turkmenistan to the UNESCO. After the presentation ceremony there was a short meeting of Ambassador S.Jumaev with the Director-General of the UNESCO. Ambassador of Turkmenistan passed to Ms. Au...

On June 12, 2019, the President of Turkmenistan held a meeting in honor of the Day of Science in the building of the Academy of Sciences of the country. The meeting was attended by members of the Cabinet of Ministers, leaders of the Mejlis, representatives of the ministries and departments, administrations of the city of Ashgabat and velayats, public organizations, media representatives, scientists and professors, teachers of the higher educational institutions. At the beginning of the mee...