On the 30th of November 2020, the 19th meeting of the Council of the Heads of Government (Prime Ministers) of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in the format of a videoconference was held. The session was attended by the high-ranking representatives of the SCO member states and observers.    The Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan R. Meredov took part in the session as a guest. During the session, the participants discussed...

69 transactions have been registered at the trades of the State Commodity and Raw Material Exchange of Turkmenistan last week. For foreign currency, the brokers from the United Arab Emirates, Turkey and Afghanistan have procured gasoline and hydro treated diesel fuel produced at Turkmenbashy Refinery Complex. The businessmen from UAE and Afghanistan have also bought gasoline produced by Seydi Refinery. Representatives of business circles from Great Britain have bought carbamide (SC Türkmenhim...

On November 28, 2020, a telephone conversation was held between the President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and the President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Mohammad Ashraf Ghani. During the conversation, the heads of states expressed satisfaction with the high level of Turkmen-Afghan ties on political, trade-economic and cultural-humanitarian spheres. The constructive collaboration in the framework of regional and international structures was underlined, in particular on...

On November 26, 2020, in Tokyo, Japan, the presentation of the book of the President of Turkmenistan "Traditions of Turkmen Statehood" in Japanese language was held. The presentation was attended by representatives of the Japanese Parliament, the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Industry, Justice, as well as representatives of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, JETRO and JECO organizations and Japanese universities. During the presentation, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plen...

On November 26, 2020, a high-level conference entitled “Preventing Violent Extremism in Central Asia: Regional Progress and the Way Forward” was hosted online by the UNDP Regional Center in Istanbul. The meeting was attended by Natalia German, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Central Asia and Head of UNRCCA, Agi Veres, Deputy Regional Director of UNDP and Deputy Assistant Administrator of UNDP for Europe and the CIS, Deputy Foreign Ministers of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Ta...

Today, on November 25, an online meeting took place between the Co-chairmen of the Intergovernmental Turkmen-Russian Commission on Economic Cooperation, the Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan R.O. Meredov and the Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation A.L.Overchuk. The meeting was also attended by the leadership of a number of key ministries and departments of Turkmenistan and Russia. The session had a rich agenda....

During his speech at the 13th Central Asia-Korea Cooperation Forum in an online format, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan outlined the position of Turkmenistan on environmental issues. As is known, environmental safety is one of the key vectors of interaction within the framework of the Central Asia-Korea Cooperation Forum. Turkmenistan considers environmental protection as one of the most important directions of the state policy of Turkmenistan. This is manifested in the ado...