On June 13-14, 2019, in the city of Vienna, the Austrian Repubic there was the Tenth session of the Turkmen-Austrian Joint Commission. The session was attended by the members of Turkmen and Austrian Commission members, as well as the representatives of organizations and companies of both sides. The sides discussed issues on the bilateral cooperation, which was included to the agenda of the tenth session of the Commission. Issues of implementation of the recommendations of the tenth session of...

On June 14, 2019 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan there was a meeting with the delegation, headed by Nicolas Fleury, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) operations coordinator for Europe and Central Asia, who has arrived to Ashgabat on a working visit. At the beginning of the meeting there was a brief overview of the current activities of the ICRC in the world and around the region. Then the sides exchanged their views on the global and regional issues of hum...

On June 13, 2019 there was a ceremony in Paris of presenting the accreditation letter to the Director-General of the United Nation Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Ms. Audrey Azoulay by the Ambassador of Turkmenistan S.Jumaev, accrediting him as the Permanent Representative of Turkmenistan to the UNESCO. After the presentation ceremony there was a short meeting of Ambassador S.Jumaev with the Director-General of the UNESCO. Ambassador of Turkmenistan passed to Ms. Au...

On June 12, 2019, the President of Turkmenistan held a meeting in honor of the Day of Science in the building of the Academy of Sciences of the country. The meeting was attended by members of the Cabinet of Ministers, leaders of the Mejlis, representatives of the ministries and departments, administrations of the city of Ashgabat and velayats, public organizations, media representatives, scientists and professors, teachers of the higher educational institutions. At the beginning of the mee...

On 12 June 2019, the Embassy of Turkmenistan in the Republic of Azerbaijan, together with the Center for the Study of International Relations of Azerbaijan, held a round table discussion on the first Caspian Economic Forum, which will be held on 12 August this year in the Avaza National Tourist Zone. The event was attended by the heads and employees of diplomatic missions accredited in Baku, deputies, representatives of financial, economic and investment organizations, experts, scholars and T...

On June 12, 2019 a meeting was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Lithuania in Turkmenistan (with residence in Baku) Valdas Lastauskas, who completes his diplomatic mission. During the meeting the sides exchanged their views on the results of the work performed in order to strengthen bilateral relations between Turkmenistan and Lithuania, including within the framework of the dialogue Turkmenistan -...

An OSCE-supported seminar on best practices in anti-money laundering (AML) and countering the financing of terrorism (CFT) in the sector of designated non-financial businesses and professions (DNFBP) took place in Ashgabat from 10 to 11 June 2019. The event was organized by the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat, jointly with the Ministry of Finance and Economy of Turkmenistan and its Financial Monitoring Service. The aim of the seminar was to enhance the participants’ understanding of international...