On October 21-25, 2019, the second meeting of the joint Turkmen-Georgian commission on international road transportation was held in Tbilisi. The Deputy Minister of Industry and Communication of Turkmenistan headed the delegation of Turkmenistan; the Georgian side was led by the Deputy Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia. The delegations shared information and statistics on trade turnover and volume of road transportation between the two countries. The sides discusse...

On October 25, 2019, a meeting of the Council of the Heads of Governments of the Commonwealth of Independent States was held in Moscow at the Skolkovo technology park. High-level delegations of the CIS member states as well as the Chairman of the Executive Committee - CIS Executive Secretary S. Lebedev gathered in Moscow to participate in this meeting. During the meeting of the Council in a narrow format, a lively and interested exchange of views took place on pressing issues of economic c...

On October 25, 2019, a meeting was held in the Baku Congress Center between President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, who arrived in the Azerbaijani capital to participate in the XVIII Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, with President Ilham Aliyev. Thanking the President of Turkmenistan for participating in the Forum, the President of Azerbaijan, the country that assumed the chairmanship of the Non-Aligned Movement in 2019-2022, praised the open-door and multi-format international cooperation pol...

On October 25, 2019, President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov arrived on a working visit to the capital of the Republic of Azerbaijan in order to participate in the XVIII Summit of the Heads of States and Governments of the Non-Aligned Movement member countries. From the Heydar Aliyev International Airport, the President of Turkmenistan proceeded to the Baku Congress Center, which became the venue for the Summit. Azerbaijan holds this Forum as the country hosting the chairmanship o...

Ashgabat has hosted the 4th Viennese Ball, a spectacular and flamboyant event, which once again added a splash of color to the country’s vibrant cultural life, having become a unique bridge between the two cities of Ashgabat and Vienna. Looking back, a 2008 official visit to the Republic of Austria by President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov paved the way for and marked the beginning of creative cooperation between cultural workers and artists of Turkmenistan and Austria. Accomplished folk and...

On October 24, 2019, the delegation of Turkmenistan took part in the opening ceremony of the IV International Scientific-practical Conference of the Caspian littoral states on the topic “Actual Issues of Modern Medicine”, which is being held in Astrakhan from October 24-26, 2019. In the morning, an introductory exhibition of the achievements of the medical industry of Turkmenistan and the cultural heritage of the Turkmen people was organized.

On October 23, 2019, in Tokyo, as part of a working visit of the government delegation of Turkmenistan headed by President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov to Japan, a ceremony of signing bilateral documents was held, reinforcing the desire of the parties to intensify multi-format interaction. Among them: General agreement between the State Committee for Water Resources of Turkmenistan and the company Itochu Corporation (Japan) on the sale of earth moving equipment; General agreement between the age...