On the 30th of April 2019, a briefing dedicated to the First Caspian Economic Forum to be held on August 12 of the current year in the National Tourist Zone “Avaza” was held in the Embassy of Turkmenistan in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The representatives of the diplomatic missions, international and regional organizations, located in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, as well as the members of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, Science Communication and Research Center, Huma...

On the 30th of April 2019, a seminar on U.S. security policy for the South and Central Asia has started at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, with participation of experts from the Near East and South Asia Center for Strategic Studies (NESA). The representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Defense, Ministry of National Security, as well as the State Border Service of Turkmenistan are participating to the seminar. During the seminar, various topics will be...

On May 21-22, 2019, the 10th International Gas Congress will be held in the National Tourist Zone “Avaza”. The organizers of this specialized forum are the “Turkmengas” State Concern and the economic society “Turkmen Forum”. The upcoming congress will bring together the leaders and representatives of relevant ministries and departments, specialists from large foreign companies, representatives of international organizations, innovation centers, research institutes, and media representatives....

On April 29, 2019, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan held a meeting with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Georgia to Turkmenistan Mamuka Murgikneli. During the talks, the sides discussed issues of further development of bilateral cooperation in the fields of transport, energy and education. Stressing particular attention to the prospects for creating the Lazuli project, which runs along the route Afghanistan-Turkmenistan-Azerbaijan-Georgia-Turkey, the Georgian...

As part of the annual “Health and Happiness” month in the country, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan traditionally organized a number of sporting tournaments in April with the participation of teams of diplomatic missions and international organizations in Ashgabat. In table tennis competitions held on April 6-7 at the sports complex of the National Institute of Sports and Tourism of Turkmenistan, the representative of the Embassy of the Russian Federation won the first place, a...

In Astrakhan, the Russian rally championship “Gold of Kagan-2019” and the championship of Astrakhan Region-2019 ended, in which drivers from Turkmenistan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Finland and Ukraine took part. A total of about 500 people and more than 240 trucks, motorcycles and off-road vehicles participated in the race. Participants of the “Gold of Kagan-2019” rally-raid over three days traveled more than 700 kilometers along the Astrakhan steppes. Of these, over 500 kilometers were san...

On April 29, 2019, a meeting with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Tunisian Republic in Turkmenistan (with residence in Moscow) Mohammed Ali Sheehi was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan. During the meeting, the sides noted with satisfaction the intensive development of the dialogue between the two countries, in particular in the political, trade, economic, cultural and humanitarian fields. In this regard, the need was noted for the exchange of d...