On the 8th of October 2020, the first meeting in Turkmenistan-Islamic Republic of Afghanistan-USA format was held through videoconferencing in participation of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov, the U.S. Under Secretary for Political Affairs David Hale and the Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Mohammad Haneef Atmar. During the meeting, the parties discussed a number of importance issues of political, trade-economic and human...

On the 8th of October 2020, the signing of the Protocol on Exchange of Instruments of Ratification of the Treaty on Strategic Partnership between Turkmenistan and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan took place in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan. From the Afghan side, the Document was signed by the Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Mohammad Haneef Atmar.  The Document was signed by the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Turkme...

On October 8, 2020, an online meeting of the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan B.Matiev with the President of the International Cyclists Union (UCI) David Lapartien took place. Representatives of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Sports and Youth Policy, the National Olympic Committee of Turkmenistan also attended the meeting on behalf of the Turkmen side. The parties expressed the need to further intensify bilateral cooperation, where there is a solid practice of product...

On October 8, 2020, a meeting of the Government Commission was held via videoconference to study issues related to Turkmenistan's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO). Deputy Foreign Minister of Turkmenistan V.Hajiev, heads and representatives of a number of relevant ministries and departments of the country took part in the meeting from the Turkmen side. The delegation of the World Trade Organization was headed by the Director of the Department for Accession to the WTO, Ms. Maika...

On October 8, 2020, an online meeting with the President of the International Sambo Federation Vasily Shestakov was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan. From the Turkmen side, the meeting was attended by the Deputy Foreign Minister of Turkmenistan B.Matiev, heads of the Ministry of Sports and Youth Policy of Turkmenistan, and the National Olympic Committee. During the meeting, the participants discussed issues related to the holding of the World Sambo Championship in Tu...

On the 7th of October 2020, President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov had a telephone conversation with President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. The Turkmen leader cordially congratulated his Russian colleague on his birthday and wished him good health, prosperity, new successes in all undertakings and aspirations for the benefit of the people of the friendly state. The President of Turkmenistan underlined that at present, bilateral relations based on the principles of...

On the 7th of October, a telephone conversation was held between the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan R.O.Meredov and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation S.V.Lavrov. In the context of fulfilling the agreements between the Presidents of Turkmenistan and Russia, the heads of external policy agencies considered the issues of bilateral agenda.  The parties paid special attention to the collaboration in the international formats. In this regard, the Ministers ex...