On November 2 – 4, 2017, Ashgabat will host XXII International Exhibition Oil and Gas of Turkmenistan and the conference dedicated to tendencies and perspectives of cooperation in oil and gas sphere. The State Concern Turkmenneft and Trade and Industrial Chamber of Turkmenistan are the hosts of branch forum.  Largest companies from 16 states will participate in OGT 2017. 300 competent experts representing international intergovernmental organizations, embassies, foreign companies and mass med...

The Turkmen multimedia project “Afghanistan railway link” won the first place in the nomination “Best Event” at the famous international competition AV Awards 2017, which annually identifies the best projects of the multimedia industry from around the world. The award ceremony took place in the Grosvenor House Hotel in London and gathered more than 1,500 spectators from 38 countries. The winning project is a multimedia show created for the opening ceremony of the Atamurat-lmamnazar-Akina rail...

On 26 October 2017, H. E. Darío Ernesto Chirú Ochoa, Ambassador of Panama to the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and Mission to the European Union signed the 2015 International Energy Charter at the Secretariat in the presence of the Secretary General Urban Rusnák and the counselor of the Embassy of Turkmenistan to the Kingdom of Belgium, representing the country holding the Energy Charter Chairmanship. The International Energy Charter is an expression of long-term political...

On October 26, 2017, at the Foreign Ministry of Turkmenistan there was a meeting with the Deputy Minister, the Director General for Foreign and Political Affairs of the Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Austria, Alexander Marshik, who arrived on a working visit to the Turkmen capital. During the conversation, the parties discussed the state and prospects of the development of cooperation between Turkmenistan and the Republic of Austria. In this co...

On October 30, 2017 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs there was a meeting with the new Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Spain to Turkmenistan, Mr. Ignacio Ibáñez (with residence in Moscow), who arrived in Ashgabat on a working visit. During the meeting, speaking of the trusting relations between Turkmenistan and Spain, the parties noted the important role of the high-level meetings. Expressing the intention to increase all-round cooperation and readiness for joi...

Festival horse ride took place at the International Ahalteke Equestrian Complex under the celebrations of the 26th anniversary of the independence of Turkmenistan. As per tradition, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov paid the visit to the complex on this day.  The members of the Government, leaders of the Mejlis, military and law enforcement agencies, ministries and departments, hyakims of the velayats and Ashgabat, ambassadors of Turkmenistan to foreign counties, heads of diplomatic mission...

President of Turkmenistan attended the ceremony of laying flowers to the Monument of Independence.  Early in the morning, thousands of Turkmen citizens and guests to Ashgabat gathered together at the magnificent complex. Ceremony participants cordially greeted President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov. The Turkmen leader walked on the alley, along which the Guard of Honour of the Armed Forces of Turkmenistan stood. The golden spire of the Monument of Independence proudly soars into the sky.  T...