On the 26th of March 2019, a meeting was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan in the framework of the visit of the delegation of Turkmenistan to Japan. During the meeting of the Chairman of Turkmen-Japanese Inter-parliamentary Friendship Group of the Parliament of Turkmenistan, Deputy Governor of the Ahal region S.Berdimuhamedov with the First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan Ms. Abe Toshiko, a number of vital issues pertaining to bilateral relations were discussed. Dur...

Today, on the 26th of March 2019, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan has sent a diplomatic note to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran in which the Government of Turkmenistan expresses its compassion to the population of the provinces of the Islamic Republic of Iran who have suffered from the floods in the result of heavy rains.      In this regard, based on traditionally friendly relations between the two neighboring states, the Turkmen side expressed...

On March 25, 2019, political consultations were held in Israel between the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan and the State of Israel. On the Israeli side, the consultations were headed by Deputy Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel, Alexander Ben Zvi. During the talks, the sides expressed satisfaction with the state of bilateral Turkmen-Israeli relations and noted the consistency in holding political consultations, which are an effective mechanism for stre...

On the 24th of March 2019, the delegation of Turkmenistan headed by the Chairman of the Turkmen-Japanese group of inter-parliamentary friendship of the Mejlis of Turkmenistan, Deputy hyakim of the Akhal province S.Berdimuhamedov began its visit to Japan. On the 25th of March, 2019 the delegation of Turkmenistan had a meeting with the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan, Mr. Oshima Tadamori, during which the parties discussed a number of important directions of mutually beneficial...

On March 21-22, 2019, the Regional Forum on Sustainable Development held its work at the Geneva International Conference Center, in which high-level delegations from countries of the ECE region took part. Turkmenistan was represented at the forum by a delegation headed by the Deputy Minister of Finance and Economy of Turkmenistan. The opening ceremony, chaired by the Minister of Health and Social Protection of Albania, Ms. O. Manastirlyu, was attended by Under-Secretary-General of the UN,...

Turkmenistan celebrated the International Day of Novruz, the National Spring Holiday, on a large scale, the main celebrations in honor of which were unfolded in the Novruz Valley in Ahal velayat, where the building was erected in the form of a huge yurt - “Türkmeniň ak öýi”. Here, with the participation of President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, the next stage of the implementation of a large-scale landscaping program was launched. Among the guests invited to the event were representatives of th...

On March 14-15, 2019, delegation of Turkmenistan took part in the work of the 62nd regular session of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) in Vienna, Austria. The main topic of the Commission’s agenda was the fight against illicit trafficking in narcotic drugs and their precursors. The participants of the session paid attention to the issues of further strengthening the international drug control system (ISCO), compliance with the UN anti-drug conventions, and objectives o...