On January 23, 2020, the ninth meeting of the Turkmen-German Joint Working Group took place in Ashgabat. The Turkmen delegation was headed by the Minister of Trade and Foreign Economic Relations of Turkmenistan, while the German delegation was led by the Deputy Head of the External Policy Department of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy of Germany. During the negotiations, the issues of bilateral cooperation pertaining to various sectors of economy were discussed. The par...

Group of qualified specialists from Germany are on working visit in Ashgabat under growing cooperation in health protection sphere. German professors, otolaryngologist Johannes Zenk and anaesthesiologist Claus Chaikovsy together with Turkmen specialists made first successful cochlear implant surgery in the country in International Diagnostics and Treatment Centre of Head and Neck Diseases. This operation is a modern method of surgical treatment of neurosensory hearing loss. - Cochlear impl...

On January 20 of the current year, the Embassy of Turkmenistan in Japan organized a number of events entitled “Neutrality – the level of friendship” which is dedicated to the declaration of the year 2020 as “Turkmenistan - Home of Neutrality.” The events took place in the “Komazawa” Olympic Park. The residents of Tokyo, sportsmen, executives of the National Sports Federations of Japan, as well as the representatives of mass media participated to the event. The events were started by the ex...

Consortium of WTL (FZE) from UAE and Westport Trading Europe Limited from USA has started installation of the retarded coking unit (RCU) at Turkmenbashy Refinery Complex. General Contractor, the company from USA, winner of the tender for completion of construction of the RCU, is a well-known in Turkmen oil and gas market. Its projects include commissioning of the unit for production of 37,200 tons high-quality road bitumen per year and reconstruction of reforming equipment for production of h...

The delegation of Turkmenistan paid a working visit to Switzerland. According to the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, President of the International Tennis Federation David Haggerty received Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs Dayanch Gulgeldiyev in Lausanne.  During the meeting, the Turkmen side presented information on the preparations for the Davis Cup Group IV regional events - the Asia/Oceania IV event, which will be held in Ashgabat in June 2020.  In turn,...

Works for development of telecommunication infrastructure are continued in the norther region. Work for bringing of local communication system to fundamentally new level is provided by implementation of integrated programme of digital transformation. Laying of necessary communication is carried out gradually.  In the last year, specialists of Daşoguztelekom Communication Company have build dozens kilometers of fibre optic networks and more than 413 kilometres of distribution cable. It allowed...

On January 16, 2020, the largest tourism exhibition “Ferien-Messe Wien” has started in Vienna, Austria. It takes place in the Austrian capital every January and is one of the largest international travel forums that reflect all modern trends in world tourism. The exhibition attracts more than 800 representatives of the tourism business from 80 countries. This year, Turkmenistan is one of the 80 participating countries. The participation of Turkmenistan in the event was organized with the supp...