On October 10, 2018, the meeting between the Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan R.Meredov and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport of the United Kingdom Lord Ashton Henry who arrived in Turkmenistan to participate in 53rd Board of Heads of Communications Administrations of the Regional Commonwealth in the field of communications, was held at the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Tu...

On September 9, 2018, international seminar «Intellectual property policies in universities and research institutes» was jointly organized at the «Archabil» hotel by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the State service for Intellectual Property of the Ministry of finance and economy of Turkmenistan. The representatives of Academy of Science, Centre of Technologies, Research institute of chemistry and numerous higher educational institutions, WIPO, Oxford University, agenc...

On October 9, 2018, a high-level international conference called “Preventing and combating terrorism in the digital age”, organized under the auspices of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), took place in Minsk. This conference was organized and held by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus together with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). The delegation of Turkmenistan headed by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs...

On October 9, 2018, a seminar for young diplomats of Turkmenistan was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan. Welcoming remarks at the beginning of the seminar were made by the pro-rector of the Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Jumamyrat Gurbangeldiyev, as well as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Austria to Turkmenistan Gerard Sayler. Leading lecturer at the seminar was Markus Kornprobst, professor a...

On October 8, 2018, a telephone conversation was held between President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and President of Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.   Taking the opportunity, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov congratulated Vladimir Putin on the occasion of his birthday, October 7, and wished him strong health, every success in his highly responsible work as the head of the state.      In the course of talks, the Presidents discussed important directions of interstate cooperation,...

On October 1 – 5, 2018, the delegation of Turkmenistan headed by the Deputy Chairman of the Migration Service of Turkmenistan S.B. Imamberdiev took part at the 69th session of the Executive Committee of the Program of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, held in Geneva, Switzerland. The UNHCR Executive Committee (Executive Committee) meets annually in Geneva to review and approve the agency’s programs and budget, advice on international protection issues and discuss a number of...

The following events were held in Ashgabat on October 2, 2018 within the framework of the 55th session of the General Assembly of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU): a meeting of the Technical Group, the seventh forum of women, a seminar on quality management, a seminar of managers, a meeting of radio workers, a planning and strategizing group, a program committee, a meeting on financing television sports rights, and the VII Song Festival. In the evening of the same day, at the end of...