Turkmenistan celebrated the International Day of Novruz, the National Spring Holiday, on a large scale, the main celebrations in honor of which were unfolded in the Novruz Valley in Ahal velayat, where the building was erected in the form of a huge yurt - “Türkmeniň ak öýi”. Here, with the participation of President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, the next stage of the implementation of a large-scale landscaping program was launched. Among the guests invited to the event were representatives of th...

On March 21-22, 2019, the Regional Forum on Sustainable Development held its work at the Geneva International Conference Center, in which high-level delegations from countries of the ECE region took part. Turkmenistan was represented at the forum by a delegation headed by the Deputy Minister of Finance and Economy of Turkmenistan. The opening ceremony, chaired by the Minister of Health and Social Protection of Albania, Ms. O. Manastirlyu, was attended by Under-Secretary-General of the UN,...

On the 18th of March 2019, a meeting between the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan and the newly appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Benin to Turkmenistan (with residence in Ankara) Mr. Issiradjou Gomina Ibrahim was held in the premises of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan. In the beginning of the meeting, the Ambassador presented the copies of his credentials and expressed his readiness to work actively for the sake of deve...

On March 18, 2019, the Embassy of Turkmenistan in the People's Republic of China held in China Petroleum University in Beijing, together with the university’s rector’s office, a presentation and a festive concert, as well as a reception and treat service in honor of the first Caspian Economic Forum, the chairmanship of Turkmenistan in the CIS and IFAS as well as the International Day of Novruz. At the grand opening of the presentation, the Ambassador of Turkmenistan to China made a speech, wh...

On March 17, 2019, the state visit of His Majesty the King of Bahrain Hamad Ibn Isa Al Khalifa to Turkmenistan began. In the evening of the same day, in the residence of a high-ranking guest, he met with businessmen from Bahrain. On March 18, 2019, summit talks were held between President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and His Majesty the King of Bahrain Hamad Ibn Isa Al Khalifa. After the official ceremony of meeting and photographing against the background of the national flag...

On March 17, 2019, the King of the Kingdom of Bahrain, Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifa, arrives in Ashgabat on a state visit. During the visit, President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and King of Bahrain Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifa will meet, during which the leaders of the two countries will discuss further development of the Turkmen-Bahraini relations in political, banking, oil and gas and chemical industry, as well as developing trade and economic relations and stimulating cultural and h...

On March 14-15, 2019, delegation of Turkmenistan took part in the work of the 62nd regular session of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) in Vienna, Austria. The main topic of the Commission’s agenda was the fight against illicit trafficking in narcotic drugs and their precursors. The participants of the session paid attention to the issues of further strengthening the international drug control system (ISCO), compliance with the UN anti-drug conventions, and objectives o...