On 8 February 2019, Meeting of the Interdepartmental Commission on preparation of Voluntary National Review on the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Turkmenistan was held in the premises of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan. The representatives of the governing bodies of the relevant ministries and agencies of Turkmenistan, the UN Resident Coordinator in Turkmenistan as well as representatives of UN agencies participated to the meeting. The aim of the con...

On 6 February 2019, negotiations were held at the MFA of Turkmenistan between the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergei Lavrov, who arrived in our country on a working visit. During the talks, the heads of external policy agencies of two countries discussed current issues of bilateral strategic cooperation in political-diplomatic, trade-economic and cultural-humanitarian spheres.  Particularly the aspects of strengthening...

Turkmenistan has started the detailed preparation to the First Caspian Economic Forum to be held on 12 of August 2019 in the National Tourist Zone “Avaza.”  It is favorably symbolical that the date of this first large Caspian forum coincides with the Day of the Caspian Sea. The implementation of measures on preparation and hosting the First Caspian Economic Forum unfolds in accordance with the Concept of holding the Forum affirmed by the President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov.  T...

On the 4 February 2019, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan a meeting was held with the UNAMA delegation headed by Mr. Tadamichi Yamamoto, UN Secretary-General Special Representative for Afghanistan, Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan that arrived to our country on a working visit. During the meeting, the parties stressed the importance of reaching peace and settlement in the brotherly country as a model of Turkmenistan’s unchanging unity with neighbor...

On 31 January 2019, a meeting was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan with a delegation that arrived in Ashgabat on a working visit headed by the European Union Special Representative for Central Asia Peter Burian. During the meeting, the sides discussed a number of issues related to the development of cooperation between the EU and Turkmenistan in 2019. In this context, in order to strengthen cooperation, the issue of opening a representation of the European Union in Turk...

On 30 January 2019, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan a meeting was held with the delegation of EBRD led by Mr. Bruno Balvanera, Managing Director, Central Asia, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development who came to Ashgabat on a working visit. In the beginning of the meeting, gratitude was expressed to the EBRD delegation for active participation of the Bank’s representatives in different international forums organized in our country as well as for constructive cooper...

On 29 January 2019, at the ceremony of presenting the credentials letters at the Cotroceni Palace in Bucharest, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Turkmenistan to Romania A.Annaev presented his credentials to the President of Romania Mr. Klaus Verner Johannis. The Advisor to the President of Romania on political issues Mr. Bogdan Aurescu, the State Secretary of the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Mr. Danuz Sebastian Neculaescu and the diplomats of the Embassy attended th...