The Torch of V Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games were lit up at super giant gas deposit Galkynysh in Mary Velayat.  The participants of the ceremony were addressed with the words of encouragement by President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov from the capital by TV spacebridge.  Traditional Turkmen tents with the hearth in the central one according to tradition were installed at the territory of the field where celebration performance takes place.  Young man shot an arrow that were set on fir...

Tickets for the upcoming Ashgabat 2017 5th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games will go on sale across the country on Saturday 29 July. With more than 700,000 tickets available for more than 220 sessions, spectators will be able to watch the best athletes from Asia and Oceania compete over 12 days of competition and across 21 sports. All session, including preliminary rounds and medal events, can be found on the Sport Competition Schedule, which the public can reference to choose the events th...

13 июня 2017 года в Ашхабаде состоялась встреча между Президентом Туркменистана Гурбангулы Бердымухамедовым и Генеральным секретарём Организации Объединённых Наций Антониу Гутеррешем.   В ходе переговоров Президент Туркменистана подчеркнул особую значимость визита Генерального секретаря ООН в контексте отмечаемого в текущем году 25-летия вступления Туркменистана в Организацию Объединённых Наций. Глава государства подтвердил, что полномасштабное и долгосрочное сотрудничество с ООН является неи...

On June 5, 2017, the three-day Central Asian International Environmental Forum, under the motto "The Initiative for Cooperation on Environment and Sustainable Development in Central Asia", began its work in the hotel "Yildiz" in Ashgabat. Representatives of the Central Asian governments, leaders and representatives of international and regional organizations, diplomatic missions working in Turkmenistan, leading experts in the field of environmental protection, representatives of the ecologica...

“Garlyk” mining and processing plant for the production of potassium fertilizers will be inagurated in Turkmenistan on March 31, 2017 Equipped with the most advanced technologies, this plant will become the flagship of the Turkmen chemical industry and the largest industrial-production complex in the Asian continent. The fact that its construction on one of the largest deposits of potassium salts in the world clearly indicates that Turkmenistan will obtain  one of the leading positions in the...

Today, on the first of March, 2017 President of Turkmenistan left for Islamabad on a working visit to participate in the XIII Summit of the Heads of the States of the Economic Cooperation Organization member-countries. Current meeting of the Heads of States and the Governments, high-rank representatives of the ECO members and international organizations will be important phase in the activity of the Organization for analyses of the past work and definition of perspective future directions....

24 января таджикским информационным агентством «Авеста» было распространено сообщение заместителя начальника ГУП «Таджикская железная дорога» Усмона Каландарова, в соответствии с которым таджикская сторона обсуждает вопрос об открытии железнодорожного сообщения через Узбекистан в Россию в обход Туркменистана. В связи с этим Министерство иностранных дел Туркменистана выражает крайнее непонимание туркменской стороны подобного рода заявлениями официальных лиц Таджикистана. Основываясь на трад...