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...

Thousands of citizens of the Turkmen capital, hundreds of guests to Ashgabat from all regions of our country and foreign states gathered together at the festively decorated main square of Ashgabat early in the morning. The cabinet ministers, heads of Mejlis, ministries and departments, public organisations, hyakims of velayats and Ashgabat, diplomats, the representatives of foreign delegations, who arrived in Ashgabat to take part in the festivities on occasion of the main holiday of our country...

On the eve of the 10th anniversary of the UN Regional Center for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia in Ashgabat, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan initiated a course of lectures for young specialists studying in higher educational institutions of Turkmenistan. The lectures of this specialized course will be presented by the heads of diplomatic missions of Turkmenistan abroad. During the course, students and audience will be acquainted with the history of preventive diplomacy, Tu...

On October 16-18, 2017, a delegation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan arrived in Bucharest, comprising the head of the department of international organizations and the head of the department of European countries. During the visit, a regular round of Turkmen-Romanian inter-ministerial consultations on cooperation in the framework of international organizations was held in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania on October 16, and on October 17, political consultations to...

Opening ceremony of new locomotive depot built under the activities for optimization of transport process on Kazakhstan – Turkmenistan – Iran railroad, which is the golden link of transcontinental transport corridor North – South, took place at Bereket railway station.  Representatives of velayat and etrap hyakimliks, railroad industry, labour collectives, non-governmental organizations, honoured elders and youth, famous political scientists and mass media took part in the event.  The open...