The Research guidance centre on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which was recently opened in the Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, held the first training course that brought together the representatives of the Democratic and Agrarian political parties as well as the Party of industrialists and entrepreneurs of Turkmenistan.  Among the trainers at the centre are the experts of the United Nations Organization, the UN Development...

On 7-8 November 2017, the 14th meeting of the Task Force on Regional Energy Cooperation in Central and South Asia (RECA) was held in the capital hotel “Yildyz”. The Ministry of Energy of Turkmenistan acted as host. Employees and specialists from relevant ministries and agencies of Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, representatives of international and regional organizations such as the International Energy Charter, CIS, USAID and representatives of e...

Regular 24th session of the Mejlis of the fifth convocation where number of laws and legal and regulatory acts have been adopted took place on the 4th of November, 2017. The deputies reviewed the draft Laws of Turkmenistan on Legal Protection of the Inventions and on Legal Protection of Industrial Samples, draft Laws on Amendments and Addendums of the Civil Code of Turkmenistan, on Amendments and Addendums of the Family Code of Turkmenistan, on Amendments and Addendums of the Law of Turkmenis...

The 39th session of the General conference of the UNESCO started in the headquarters of the organization in Paris. On October 30, 2017 at 202-nd session of the Executive Council of the organization, in accordance with the decision No. 202 EX/27 Part III, Turkmenistan was elected Vice-President of the General conference of the United Nations educational, scientific and cultural organization (UNESCO). This was the recognition of the success of active multi-vector foreign policy of President...

On November 1, 2017 the International Exhibition "Tourism and Travel" and the first day of the same conference on the development of cooperation in this field were opened in the National Tourist Zone "Avaza". The events were organized by the State Committee for Tourism and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Turkmenistan. Delegates from more than twenty countries arrived to participate in the forum: Russia, China, the United States, Great Britain, Australia, Brazil, Germany, Czech Republi...

On 26 October 2017, H. E. Darío Ernesto Chirú Ochoa, Ambassador of Panama to the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and Mission to the European Union signed the 2015 International Energy Charter at the Secretariat in the presence of the Secretary General Urban Rusnák and the counselor of the Embassy of Turkmenistan to the Kingdom of Belgium, representing the country holding the Energy Charter Chairmanship. The International Energy Charter is an expression of long-term political...

On October 23, 2017 a new locomotive depot was opened and put into operation in the Balkan velayat at the station Bereket. The Bereket station is an important part of the transnational railway route Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran, and the opening of a new locomotive depot here will allow to bring the work of a large railway enterprise to a new level, to increase the productivity of locomotives and working groups, and to create a favorable condition for workers involved in ensuring safety of train...