On April 24, 2023, the ninth round of annual bilateral political consultations between Turkmenistan and the United States was held at the Department of State of the USA. During the talks, the Turkmen delegation was headed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov, the American side – acting Assistant Secretary of State Elizabeth Horst. During the meeting, the parties noted that the annual bilateral consultations are a platform for discussing joint tasks and achievement...

On April 12-13, 2023, in the Indian city of Mumbai, within the framework of multilateral cooperation in the “Central Asia-India” format, the first meeting of the joint Working Group on the Chabahar port at the level of senior officials of India and Central Asia was held. The meeting was attended by the Deputy Foreign Ministers of India and the Islamic Republic of Iran, representatives of the transport sector and the Ambassadors of the Central Asian countries, the representative of the UN Food...

On April 10, 2023, the 56th session of the UN Commission on Population and Development began its work at the UN Headquarters in New York, in which the Head of the population statistics department of the State Committee of Turkmenistan on Statistics Ms. Jahan Pigamova takes part. The Commission, established in 1946, is a functional body of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), that reviews and evaluates the implementation of the Program of Action of the International Confere...

On April 7, 2023, Ambassador of Turkmenistan to Pakistan A.Movlamov called on Prof. Dr. Muhammad T. Afzal, Rector, COMSATS University Islamabad to discuss cooperation in the field of science and research exchanges between Turkmenistan and COMSATS University. During the meeting, the Pakistani side made a presentation on the faculties, scientific activities, and achievements of the University. Turkmen side in its turn, made a presentation about activities of Turkmenistan carried out in the i...

The play «Fragi» was staged at the Batken Regional Music and Drama Theater named after Appaz Zhainakov of the Ministry of culture, information, sports and youth policy of the Kyrgyz Republic. In recent days, the theater hosted the premiere of a performance about the life and work of the great Turkmen poet and thinker Magtymguly Fragi. The theatrical performance caused a special resonance among connoisseurs of the culture of the East and classical oriental poetry. The production of the play...

On April 10, 2023, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan V.Hajiyev met with the newly appointed Ambassador of the Kingdom of Belgium to Turkmenistan Michel Pietermans (with residence in Baku), who is in Ashgabat on a working visit. In frames of the presentation of copies of credentials, the Turkmen side expressed its readiness to provide all possible assistance and support to the activities of the Ambassador in his new position. During the meeting, the main directions and...

On April 10, 2023, in the building of the Foreign Ministry of Turkmenistan, a meeting was held between the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Myahri Byashimova and the Head of the Office of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Turkmenistan Ayna Seyitlieva. During the meeting, issues of interaction between Turkmenistan and UNFPA were discussed within the framework of the country cooperation program approved for the period 2021-2025. The parties also noted the succes...