At the past week at auctions of the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan (SCRMET) 32 transactions were registered. For the foreign currency representatives of business circles from the United Arab Emirates obtained heavy vacuum gas oil of Seydi Oil Refinery. Liquefied gas, aviation and lamp oil, petroleum bitumen and industrial sulphur manufactured by process plants of “Türkmennebit”, “Türkmengaz” and “Türkmenhimiýa” State Concerns became a subject of deals of businesspe...

On April 3, 2023, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Vepa Hajiyev met with the Deputy Director of the Policy Analysis and Public Relations Division of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Fedor Klimchuk and Deputy Head of the Section for Co-financing and Partnerships Igor Kondratyev. During the meeting, the parties highly appreciated the active cooperation of Turkmenistan with UNODC, discussed the implementation of national, regional and global UNODC progra...

On March 29, 2023, at the initiative of the Pakistani side, a meeting was held at the Embassy of Turkmenistan in Islamabad with Muhammad Adnan Jalil, Minister of Industry, Commerce, Technical Education and Revenue of the Government of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan. During the meeting, Mr. Adnan Jalil expressed the interest of the leadership of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in the development of trade relations with the countries of Central Asia and Turkmenistan in particular....

On 29 March 2023 the delegation of Turkmenistan led by B.Allakbayev, Deputy Minister of Finance and Economy of Turkmenistan has participated to the Regional Forum on Sustainable Development for the UNECE Region. The delegation of Turkmenistan made statement at the high-level political segment of the forum, in which it was noted that for Turkmenistan regional cooperation is one of the important strategic directions of foreign economic activity. It was also highlighted that Turkmenistan acti...

On 30 March the United Nations General Assembly under the presidency of Turkmenistan convened a High-level meeting on the role of zero waste as a transformative solution in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. The meeting was attended by the UN Secretary-General, Mr. António Guterres, the First Lady of the Republic of Türkiye, Ms. Emine Erdogan, the Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), Ms. Maimunah Mohd Sharif, high-level delegations of th...

On March 29, 2023, the President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov accepted the acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan Bakhtiyor Saidov. The head of the Uzbek Foreign Ministry conveyed heartfelt greetings from the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev to the head of state, as well as to the Chairman of the Halk Maslahaty Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, who addressed the wishes of well-being and prosperity to all Turkmen citizens. The President of Turkmenistan, in turn, convey...

On March 29, 2023, political consultations were held in Ashgabat between the foreign ministries of Turkmenistan and the Republic of Uzbekistan. The delegations were headed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov and acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan Bakhtiyor Saidov. During the consultations, the current state and prospects of bilateral cooperation, issues of expanding political relations and filling them with practical content, incl...