Today, the Parliament of Turkmenistan has ratified the Paris Agreement approved at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP-21) in Paris on 12 December 2015 and signed by Turkmenistan on 23 September 2016 at the UN Headquarters in New York. Turkmenistan being an active supporter of the prevention of negative consequences of climate change, consistently conducts numerous events aimed at reduction of green house emissions into the atmosphere. A good example of it is the National Climate Change Str...

Bilateral meeting between authorized officials of the Government of Turkmenistan and the incoming delegation of the Republic of Belarus headed by the Deputy Prime Minister A.N.Kalinin who is on a working visit to Turkmenistan took place upon the directives of the President of Turkmenistan. Both the sides discussed wide range of issues of bilateral cooperation during the negotiations. A special attention was paid to the status of individual projects under the implementation by the Belarussi...

Yesterday morning, the heads of international structures of sports journalism and media representatives, who arrived in Ashgabat at the Sports Media Forum, participated in a ceremony honoring the Turkmen athletes who distinguished themselves at the II World Nomads Games held in Kyrgyzstan. President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov made a speech at the ceremony, who stressed that the development of sports in the country and the strengthening of a healthy lifestyle is one of the main pri...

On September 19, 2016 the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) holds in Warsaw the OSCE meeting to review the implementation of the commitments, the Human Dimension implementation meeting - Europe's largest human rights conference. This meeting has been held for more than fifteen years. This two-week meeting in the Polish capital is attended by the representatives of OSCE participating States, experts on international issues, activists of non-governmental organizat...

On September 17, 2016 in Ashgabat, Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov participated in the solemn ceremony of the inauguration of the complex of the new International Airport, designed to become the main "air gates" of Turkmenistan. The opening ceremony was attended by the representatives of a number of international and regional organizations such as the International Air Transport Association, the Interstate Aviation Committee, the International Road Transport Union, and the Interna...

On September 16, 2016 Ashgabat hosted an international media forum organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, dedicated to the first Global Conference on the Sustainable Transport. The forum was attended by foreign and domestic journalists, experts, representatives of relevant ministries and departments. In particular, representatives of a number of international news agencies and editions, such as TRT, IRNA, Euronews, The Tokyo Shimbun and others arrived in Ashgabat to participate in the...

On September 16, 2016 a Media Forum, dedicated to the first Global Conference on the sustainable transport started its work in Ashgabat. The forum was attended by the representatives of 10 international organizations, as well as journalists and representatives of more than 65 media, representing about 30 countries. During the first session of the forum the representatives of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), the United Nations Economic Commiss...