on September 14, a telephone conversation took place between the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov and Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany Heiko Maas. Minister on behalf of the Government of Germany expressed deep gratitude to Turkmenistan for cooperation in the issues of ensuring the flights of aircrafts with the aim of evacuating citizens from Afghanistan. At the same time, it was emphasized that the immediate granting of permissi...

On September 13, 2021, a high-level meeting on the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan was held in Geneva in a hybrid format. The Turkmen side was represented at the meeting by the delegation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan. The high-level meeting was attended by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, as well as representatives of reputable international organizations. Turkmenistan, following the traditions of good-neighborliness and friendship, systematically provides hu...

On September 13, 2021, a meeting was held at the General Secretariat of the Cooperation Council of the States of the Gulf between the Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the countries of Central Asia in Riyadh and the Assistant Secretary General of the Council on Political Affairs and Negotiation. During the meeting the diplomats of Central Asian countries discussed the issues of build-up of the potential of cooperation with the Council. The participants of the meeting also co...

Eight transactions were registered at the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan last week. Businessmen from Russia, Turkey, Uzbekistan purchased polypropylene and lighting kerosene produced at the Turkmenbashi complex of oil refineries. Moreover, businessmen from Kyrgyzstan purchased float sheet glass for foreign currency. The total amount of transactions exceeded USD 4.322 million. Turkmen businessmen purchased portland cement to the total amount of 122.850 US doll...

The growth of the gross domestic product of Turkmenistan for eight months of 2021 amounted to 6.2 percent. The results of the country's socio-economic development for the reporting period were considered at a meeting of the government of Turkmenistan. It was noted at the meeting that compared to the same period last year, production in general increased by 5.5 percent, the volume of retail trade increased by 17 percent, and the volume of foreign trade turnover - by 9.6 percent. The revenue si...

On September 9, 2021, at the proposal of Turkmenistan at the 102nd plenary meeting of the 75th session of the UN General Assembly a resolution «On cooperation between the United Nations and the Economic Cooperation Organization» was unanimously adopted. As is known, within the framework of Turkmenistan's chairmanship in the Economic Cooperation Organization, Ashgabat will host the 15th Summit of Heads of State of this organization on November 28 this year. Neutral Turkmenistan promotes imp...

On September 9-10, 2021, in Tashkent city the 23rd Central Asia Media Conference of the OSCE was held in hybrid format. The theme of the Conference was “Promoting Public Value of the Media in Central Asia”. About 70 participants from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Mongolia representing the governmental structures, media, the civil society and scientific community discussed core values, the content and strategic problems of the public service broadcasting in t...