Today, on the first of March, 2017 President of Turkmenistan left for Islamabad on a working visit to participate in the XIII Summit of the Heads of the States of the Economic Cooperation Organization member-countries. Current meeting of the Heads of States and the Governments, high-rank representatives of the ECO members and international organizations will be important phase in the activity of the Organization for analyses of the past work and definition of perspective future directions....

On January 18, 2017 at the Olympic village in Ashgabat the press conference was organized dedicated to the V Asian Games indoors and martial arts, to be held from 17 to 27 September 2017 at the capital of Turkmenistan. The press conference was organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, the State Committee of Turkmenistan for Sport, the Executive Committee for the preparation of V Asian Games and the National Olympic Committee of Turkmenistan. The press conference was attend...

To commemorate the 250 days countdown before the start of the Asian Games 2017, the Embassy of Turkmenistan in Japan in collaboration with representatives of Kokugakuin University of Tokyo on January 12, 2017 has organized a Presentation in the form of an extended meeting with students and professors of this and other universities in Japan. Turkmenistan's Ambassador to Japan Gurbanmamet Elyasov, representatives of the University, as well as former Charge d’Affairs of Japan in Turkmenistan Mitsur...

On January 8, 2017 in one of the largest art museums of Japan «POLA», was held special event dedicated to ethnography and history of Turkmenistan. Said event was carried out within the framework of Exhibition of ethnographic and jewelry of Turkmenistan, which enjoys great popularity among the visitors and held here since September 2016 up until March 2017. During the above-mentioned event Ms. Takako Murata - researcher in the field of jewelry and ethnographic art, Ms. Matsuri - designer and f...

In connection with the posted content on the official website of the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC), the following is noted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan. Company’s message has tendentious and biased nature, is considered by us as an attempt to mislead all of us, regarding to the debt repayment obligations of the Company to the Turkmen side. In particular, the statements about the alleged violations of the contract from  State Concern «Turkmengaz», related to the...

In the last days contradictory information started to circulate in the mass media of Iran and other states concerning Turkmen-Iranian relations in the gas sphere.  Some of them allegedly state about “unexpected and inconsistent with bilateral agreement” termination of natural Turkmen gas supplies to Iran as of January 1st 2017.  On the contrary, in other publications it is noted that Iran has signed a five year contract with Turkmenistan on the supply of Turkmen gas. In this regard, the Minis...

In accordance with Articles №44, №45 of the Electoral Code of Turkmenistan, December 14, 2016 at the conference of the Democratic Party of Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov Myalikgulyevich nominated as a candidate for the Presidential elections of Turkmenistan to be held February 12, 2017. Events for the nomination of the candidate held in the hall of the mejlises center of the public organizations of Turkmenistan.   In accordance with the Electoral code of Turkmenistan the rig...