On July 23, 2018, a meeting was held in Ashgabat in the course of which the participants discussed the actual tasks of the new Institute of the State, Law and Democracy of Turkmenistan, formed in accordance with the Decree of the Head of State on the basis of the merger of the Turkmen National Institute of Democracy and Human Rights under the President of Turkmenistan and the Institute of State and Law under the President Turkmenistan. As the speakers emphasized, in recent years, at the initi...

In conjunction with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) nationalization process in Turkmenistan, the United Nations Development Programme and the State Bank for Economic Affairs (TFEB) are working to improve the access of Turkmenistan to international financing and to improve its capacity to deliver and manage such financing streams effectively. As part of the joint initiative, on June 20, 2018, UNDP and TFEB held International Financing for Development Conference “Partnership for Develop...

On June 20, 2018, President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov left for a working visit to the Republic of Tajikistan in order to participate in the High-Level International Conference on the UN Decade of Action "Water for Sustainable Development, 2018-2028". After an hour and a half flight, the presidential airliner landed at the International airport of the capital of Tajikistan, where the national flags of the two countries were raised on flagpoles. President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamed...

On June 13, 2018, at the 96th meeting of the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly, Turkmenistan was elected to the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) for 2019-2021. The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) is at the heart of the United Nations, which coordinates the activities of the UN, its specialized agencies and organizations in the economic, social, health and educational spheres. ECOSOC was established in 1946 by the Charter of the United Nations an...

On 11 June 2018, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan R. Meredov had a meeting with the new director of the country office of the World Health Organization in Turkmenistan, Dr. Paulina Karvovska. During the meeting, the new director was acquainted with the main activities of Turkmenistan in the field of health care. The Turkmen side positively assessed the cooperation of Turkmenistan and WHO on various diseases and noted the great achievements that Turkmenistan achieved in the fiel...

On June 8, 2018 a round table in on the issues of freedom of religion was held in the building of the National Institute of Democracy and Law under the President of Turkmenistan. Representatives of the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Adalat (Justice) of Turkmenistan, the Muftiyat of Turkmenistan, as well as representatives of various religious organizations took part in the dialogue. Deputy Foreign Minister of Turkmenistan addressed the opening c...

On June 5, 2018, an international scientific and practical conference "Turkmenistan is the heart of the Great Silk Road - the region of ecological well-being", dedicated to the World Environment Day had been held in the conference hall of the Agricultural Complex. The forum was organized by the State Committee for Environmental Protection and Land Resources. Heads and specialists of nature protection departments and structures, representatives of sectoral ministries, academics and ecologists...