On the 6th of February 2019, negotiations were held at the MFA of Turkmenistan between the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergei Lavrov, who arrived to our country on a working visit.  During the talks, the heads of external policy agencies of two countries discussed current issues of bilateral strategic cooperation in political-diplomatic, trade-economic and cultural-humanitarian spheres.  Particularly the aspects of stre...

On February 5, 2019, an International media-forum dedicated to the First Caspian economic forum was held in the premises of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Turkmenistan in Ashgabat. Representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan and other relevant ministries and organizations, foreign journalists accredited in Turkmenistan, representatives of international news agencies, newspapers and magazines, TV and radio channels of the littoral states, as well as representatives...

Turkmenistan has started the detailed preparation to the First Caspian Economic Forum to be held on the 12th of August 2019 in the National Tourist Zone “Avaza.”  It is favorably symbolical that the date of this first in the history large Caspian forum coincides with the Day of the Caspian Sea. The implementation of measures on preparation and hosting the First Caspian Economic Forum unfolds in accordance with the Concept of holding the Forum affirmed by the President of Turkmenistan Gurbangu...

On the 4th of February 2019, a meeting was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan with the delegation headed by Tadamichi Yamamoto, UN Secretary-General Special Representative for Afghanistan and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan that arrived to our country on a working visit.  During the meeting, the parties stressed the importance of reaching peace and settlement in the brotherly country as a model of Turkmenistan’s unchanging unity with neighbori...

On the 4th of February, 2019 a meeting was held at the Ministry of the Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan with the representatives of the Interstate Found for Humanitarian cooperation of the Commonwealth of Independent States (IFHC) Ms. Elvira Dolya, Deputy executive director of the IFHC of the CIS and Mr. Alexander Goncharov, the counselor of the Directorate, who came to Ashgabat on a working visit. During the meeting an exchange of views took place with the Commonwealth of Independent States r...

On January 31, 2019, a meeting was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan with a delegation that arrived in Ashgabat on a working visit headed by the European Union Special Representative for Central Asia Peter Burian. During the meeting, the sides discussed a number of issues related to the development of cooperation between the EU and Turkmenistan in 2019. In this context, in order to strengthen cooperation, the issue of opening a representation of the European Union in Tur...

On the 30th of January 2019, a meeting was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan with the delegation headed by Mr. Bruno Balvanera, Managing Director, Central Asia, of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development who came to Ashgabat on a working visit. In the beginning of the meeting, gratitude was expressed to the EBRD delegation for active participation of the Bank’s representatives in different international forums organized in our country as well as for construc...