On May 8, 2018, a meeting was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Moldova in Turkmenistan (with residence in Kiev) Mr. Ruslan Bolbochan. During the negotiations, the parties discussed the current state and prospects for the development of cooperation. The participants of the meeting noted the need for intensification of the political dialogue, diplomatic interaction within the framework of internation...

Within the framework of the 30th session of the Working Group of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), held in May 2018 in Geneva, Switzerland, the delegation of Turkmenistan, headed by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan V. S. Khadzhiev, took part on May 7, 2018 at the 3rd review of Turkmenistan. In the course of the above-mentioned event, the Turkmen side made a presentation on the main directions of Turkmenistan's policy to implement the commitments undertaken in the fiel...

The first issue of the quarterly, scientific-practical magazine "Foreign Policy and Diplomacy of Turkmenistan" prepared by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan has been published this month. The magazine is opened by an article dedicated to one of the main events of 2018 - solemn ceremonies on the occasion of the start of the construction on February 23, 2018 in the Serhetabat district of the Mary province and in the Afghan city of Herat, the Afghan section of the Turkmenistan-Afgh...

On May 7, 2018, the Embassy of Turkmenistan in Romania together with the Diplomatic Institute under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania organized a round table on "Creating a modern multimodal transport infrastructure - the key to success in the revival of the Great Silk Road". The State Secretary of the Ministry of Transport of Romania, Maria Magdalena Grigore, took part as the main guest of the event. Representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Parliament, the Ministry of Bus...

On May 7, 2018, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan there was a meeting with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Indonesia to Turkmenistan (with the residence in Tehran) Mr. Octavino Alimudin. At the beginning of the meeting, the sides expressed the need for further consolidation of efforts in developing cooperation between Turkmenistan and the Republic of Indonesia and exchanged views on the current state and prospects for expanding bilateral co...

On May 4, 2018, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan there was a meeting with the Director of the UNESCO Cluster Office in Tehran, Ms. Esther Kuisch Laroche, who arrived in Ashgabat on a working visit to participate in the inauguration of the new International Seaport. During the talks, the sides exchanged views on perspective areas of partnership, identifying among them the scientific, educational and cultural sphere, cooperation in the preservation of historical and architectu...

On May 3, 2018, in the Avaza National Tourism Zone, the IX meeting of the Ministers of Transport and Communications of the member countries of the Economic Cooperation Organization was held. High-ranking representatives of the Economic Cooperation Organization, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), the International Road Transport Union (IRU) and a number of other international organizations attended the meeting which was held in the congress cente...