On July 11, 2018, a seminar organized by the OSCE Center in Ashgabat within the framework of the project "Cooperation in the field of improving media legislation and promoting freedom of expression" was launched at the Yıldız Hotel. The participants of the training were representatives of various media - television and radio channels, newspapers, magazines, online publications, as well as professors of the country's profile universities, lawyers, experts in the field of legal proceedings, to...

On July 9, 2018 High-level Dialogue of the European Union-Central Asia and Afghanistan on issues of politics and security has been held in Ashgabat. The meeting was held at the level of deputy foreign ministers. The delegation of the European Union at the meeting was headed by Jean Christophe Belliard, Deputy Secretary-General for Political Affairs of the European External Relations Service. The agenda of the meeting included issues of countering international and regional threats to securit...

On July 4-5, 2018, a delegation headed by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan S.G. Berdimuhamedov was in the city of Geneva on a working visit. Within the framework of this visit, meetings were held with the UN Under-Secretary-General, the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Ms. Olga Algaerova, with the Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Ambassador Roberto Azevedo, with the Secretary-General of the Inter-Parl...

On July 5, 2018, a meeting was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan to discuss the National Plan of Action for the implementation of children's rights in Turkmenistan for the period 2018-2022 in the light of sustainable development goals and national priorities in ensuring the well-being of children. Representatives of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in Turkmenistan, headed by the head of the mission, Ms. Shahin Nilofer, as well as officials of relevant ministri...

On June 28, 2018, at the joint meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers and the State Security Council of Turkmenistan, the Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers, the Minister of Foreign Affairs reported on preparations for the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development under the aegis of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), scheduled for July this year in New York. As is known, this month our country was elected to the membership of ECOSOC for the period of 2019-2021. By...

On June 25, 2018, the UN Human Rights Council (UNHCR), at the 38th session held in Geneva, Switzerland, adopted the Joint Statement on encouraging the protection of cultural heritage along the Great Silk Road with a view to promote universal respect for cultural rights. The following 24 states along with Turkmenistan became the co-sponsors of this Joint Statement: Afghanistan, Albania, Armenia, Bangladesh, Belarus, Georgia, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Kazakhstan, Cambodia, Canada, China, th...

On June 22, 2018, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan R.Meredov had a meeting with Rastislav Vrbensky, Deputy Director of the UNDP Regional Bureau for Europe and CIS countries, during which the issues of Turkmenistan's cooperation with UNDP were discussed. Noting the results of the international conference "Partnership for Financing Development at the Heart of the Great Silk Road", held on June 20-21, 2018 in Ashgabat, the Turkmen side expressed its full commitment to further stre...