On March 27, 2019, the 15th meeting of the Task Force on Regional Energy Cooperation in Central and South Asia (RECA) began its work at the capital's Yyldyz Hotel. This two-day RECA meeting is organized with the assistance of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Energy of Turkmenistan. Employees and specialists from relevant ministries and agencies of Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, representatives of such intern...

On March 26, 2019, political consultations between the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan and the State of Palestine took place in the city of Ramallah. From the Palestinian side, the talks were led by the Deputy Foreign Minister Mazen Shamia. During the talks, the sides expressed satisfaction with the development of bilateral Turkmen-Palestinian relations and noted the consistency in holding political consultations. The parties noted the effectiveness of the mechanism of mutual co...

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 March 25, 2019, Turkmen-Estonian political consultations were held in the premises of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan. The delegation of the Republic of Estonia, which arrived in Ashgabat on a working visit, was headed by Mr. Lembit Uibo, the General Director of the Political Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia. At the beginning of the meeting, the sides exchanged greetings and discussed the current state of the Turkmen-Estonian relations. In addition,...

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,...

On February 20, 2019, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Mohammad Ashraf Ghani arrives in Ashgabat on an official visit. During the visit, President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Mohammad Ashraf Ghani will have a meeting on February 21, during which the leaders of the two countries will discuss the further development of Turkmen-Afghan relations in the political, trade-economic, transport, energy and cultural-human...