On September 7, 2018, within the framework of the thirty-first Moscow International Book Fair, the awards ceremony of the winners of the 15th international competition of the CIS countries "The Art of the Book" was held. The competition has been held regularly since 2004 under the auspices of the Interstate Council for Cooperation in the Sphere of Periodical Press, Book Publishing, Book Distribution and Printing and the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications of the Russian Federatio...

On September 5-6, 2018, the Investment and Partnership Forum "Turkmenistan - the Heart of the Great Silk Road", was held in Vienna, the Republic of Austria. During the forum, a video on the economic development of Turkmenistan was presented as well as presentations on various topics in the field of economy, foreign trade, transport, communications, mining and processing of minerals, the private sector, taxation, industry, agro-industry, agriculture, banking, services, tourism development, qua...

The 73rd session of the General Assembly is the most important event in the multifaceted activities of the United Nations. It is called upon to become an important milestone in the сonsistent сonsolidation of international efforts to address key issues on the global agenda, affirming the leading role of the United Nations in maintaining and strengthening global peaсe, stability and seсurity and fully realizing the deсlared sustainable development Agenda until 2030, in promoting the сontinued imp...

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...