On June 1, 2020, a high-level regional meeting, “Road to Recovery,” took place in a video conference format. The event was organized by the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). The regional meeting was attended by UNWTO Secretary-General Zurab Pololikashvili, heads of national tourism administrations of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, Georgia, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republiс of Moldova, the Russian Feder...

On May 29, 2020, a regular meeting of the Council of the Heads of Governments of the Commonwealth of Independent States took place by videoconferencing. The meeting was attended by the Prime Minister of the Azerbaijan Republic A.Asadov, the Vice Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia M. Grigoryan, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Belarus S.Rumas, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan A.Mamin, the Vice Prime Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic E.Asrandiev, the Prime Minister of...

On May 29, 2020, the Mejlis of Turkmenistan hosted a videoconference of the Inter-Parliamentary Friendship Group between representatives of the Mejlis of Turkmenistan and the House of Representatives of the Parliament of Japan. The Japanese delegation at the conference was headed by the Director of the Department of Financial Affairs of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, the head of the secretariat of the Parliamentary League of Japanese-Turkmen Friendship Matsushita Shinpei. At the be...

On May 28, 2020, a high-level meeting on financing for development in the era of COVID-19 and beyond was held in video format. The event was jointly organized by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Jamaica's Prime Minister Andrew Holness. The event was attended by delegations of UN member states. From the Turkmen side, the Minister of Finance and Economics of Turkmenistan E.Annamuhammedov attended the meeting. The event was held in three segments....

On May 28, 2020, an international seminar in the format of video conferencing was held in the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan entitled: “Financing the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals: the role of integrated national financing mechanisms”. The meeting was attended by delegates at the level of ministers of the countries participating in the UN Special Program for the Economies of Central Asia (SPECA), which includes Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakh...

An online training on border crossing facilitation for transit goods carried by rail and road, opened in Ashgabat on 27 May 2020. The training is organized by OSCE Centre in Ashgabat within the framework of the Centre’s extra-budgetary project on “Strengthening State Border Service Capacities in Turkmenistan”, which places a particular focus on promoting cross-border trade and transit in the Central Asian region. The purpose of the online training was to introduce participants to security, pu...

On May 27, 2020, in the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, negotiations were held online between the official representatives of Turkmenistan and the French company Total. At the meeting, the Turkmen delegation was represented by the Advisor to the President of Turkmenistan on oil and gas issues Y.Kakaev, heads of, the Turkmengaz State Concern and the Turkmennebit State Concern, representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other agencies, and from the French s...