On July 4, 2019, the 28th annual session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly began its work in Luxembourg. During the event of the first day, the agenda and a number of resolutions were approved, which are planned to be adopted by three committees (military-political, economic and humanitarian). On July 5, the Second Committee on economic issues considered a draft resolution presented by the Republic of Belarus “Strategic Foresight for Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Develop...

On July 4, 2019, Turkmen-Polish political consultations on the level of the deputy ministers of foreign policy agencies of the two countries were held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan. The Polish delegation was headed by the Deputy State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland Marcin Przydacz, who has arrived to Ashgabat on a working visit. At the beginning of the meeting the sides discussed the current state and prospects for the development o...

On July 4, 2019, a meeting was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan with the Russian delegation, headed by the deputy minister of economic development of the Russian Federation, who has arrived to Ashgabat for participating in the 7th High Level Trade and Investment Support Group Meeting of the Turkmen-Russian Intergovernmental Commission on Economic Cooperation. At the beginning of the meeting, both sides exchanged their views on the productive character of bilateral coope...

On July 4, 2019, a meeting was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan with the delegation of Ireland headed by the Special Envoy of the Prime Minister of Ireland, Ambassador David Donoghue, who arrived in Ashgabat on a working visit. At the beginning of the meeting, the parties expressed their commitment to the development of multilateral relations between the two countries. Noting with satisfaction the good level of cooperation at international platforms, the sides discussed...

On June 29, 2019 the opening ceremony of the tour of “Galkynysh” horse group took place in northeastern Jilin Province (Changchun). The opening ceremony was attended by Mr. Lanjun, Chairman of the Council for the Development of National Trade of China, party and economic leaders at various levels of Jilin Province, heads of the organizing tour company Jilin Shengshi Totem Horse Calche Co. Ltd., representatives of the Federation of Entrepreneurs, art workers, actors, employees of the Foreign A...

On June 27, 2019, in Geneva, the Swiss Confederation, Turkmenistan was unanimously elected as a permanent member of the Council of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) during its 66th session. Turkmenistan was entered in the list of group “A” as the 157th member of this Council. The supreme body of UNCTAD is the Conference, which holds its ministerial-level sessions at least once every four years to determine the general directions of the policy and address issue...

The first batch of environmentally friendly gasoline in the amount of 60 tons, shipped as humanitarian aid from the world's only plant for the production of gasoline from natural gas, opened and put into operation with the participation of the President of Turkmenistan, arrived on July 1, 2019 from Turkmenistan at the Akina station of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. At the Akina station, humanitarian aid with gasoline was received by the mayor of the township of Akina Azimi Bashir Ahmad,...