On 19 July 2019, the 29th meeting of the Council on Healthcare Cooperation of the Commonwealth of Independent States was held in the “Archabil” Hotel of Ashgabat. The heads and representatives of the ministries and profile agencies working in the healthcare sphere of the CIS member states, as well as the specialists of the WHO European Regional Office, structural agencies of the UN and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent participated at the meeting. In the beginning...

On 18 July 2019, during the High-Level Political Forum held in the United Nations Headquarters, the delegation of Turkmenistan presented to the community of nations its Voluntary National Review on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. This is the first National Review presented by Turkmenistan in New York as the member of the United Nations Economic and Social Council.  Presenting at the high-level conference chaired by the President of ECOSOC, the delegation of Turkmenist...

In the framework of the first day of the visit of the delegation of Turkmenistan in New York headed by the Minister of Finance and Economy, a number of meetings with the heads of the UN specialized agencies and programmes were held on the 17th of July 2019.   Particularly, the meetings were held with Ms. Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and Ms. Fekitamoeloa Katoa ‘Utoikamanu, Deputy Secretary Gen...

On the 17th of July 2019, a thematic event named “Cooperation of international institutions in providing sustainable development in Central Asia: the UN-IFAS model” was held in the UN Headquarters.   The official representatives of the UN member states, experts of the UN structural agencies situated in New York, listeners of civic organizations and scientific society participated to the event.     The participants exchanged views on the prospects of consolidating the joint efforts in eliminat...

On the 16th of July 2019, a meeting was held in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan with Iranian delegation that has arrived to Ashgabat on a working visit headed by the Chairman of Iranian-Turkmen Inter-parliamentary Group of Friendship, Member of the Energy Committee of the Islamic Consultative Assembly of Iran Mr. Kurosh Karam Pur Hakygy.   During the meeting, the parties discussed the current issues of bilateral cooperation including the inter-parliamentary ties, energy, trans...

On the 10th of July 2019, an educational course on the development of work with online mass media has started in the “Yildiz” hotel of Ashgabat organized by the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat in assistance with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan. The representatives of the State News Agency of Turkmenistan (TDH), State Committee of Turkmenistan for television, radiobroadcasting and cinematography, as well as the staff members of digital and printed mass media are participating in the co...

Today, on the 7th of July the meeting of the heads of external policy agencies of EU and the countries of Central Asia was held in the capital of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek which was attended by the delegation of Turkmenistan headed by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs V.Hajiyev.  During the meeting, the parties exchanged their views on a wide range of issues related to the implementation of the Strategy of the European Union for Central Asia adopted on the 17th of June 2019.  In this regard...