On September 8, 2020, the second round of international negotiations of the Energy Charter Treaty Modernization Group started. The meeting of the participants, which takes place in the videoconference mode, will end on Friday, September 11 this year. Heads and representatives of a number of relevant ministries and departments of the country, including the State Concerns "Turkmennebit" and "Turkmengaz," Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Adalat (Justice), Ministry of Finance and Economy,...

Preamble The 75th jubilee session of the General Assembly is a major event in the work of the entire United Nations system. It is called upon to provide an objective assessment of the UN role in the modern world, reaffirm its world-wide recognition as the most authoritative, legitimate, and universal international forum, the cornerstone of the existing system of global interaction, the guarantor for the preservation and maintenance of peace and balance of interests on the international arena...

On September 3, 2020, a telephone conversation took place between President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella. At the beginning of the conversation, the Turkmen leader emphasized that he recalls with particular warmth his visit to Italy in November 2019, where, during the summit in Rome, topical issues of interaction in political-diplomatic, trade-economic, cultural-humanitarian and other areas had been discussed. President Gu...

On September 2, 2020 the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat organized three-day online seminar under the title “Membership in the World Trade Organization as a balance of rights and obligations”. The event aims to present best practices of OSCE participating States in going through the WTO negotiation process and will facilitate discussions on possible steps for further expansion of the national trade policy. The seminar brought together representatives of a number of Turkmenistan’s ministries, inclu...

On August 31, 2020, the signing ceremony of the “Memorandum of Understanding concerning Land Acquisition for the Afghan portion of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project” took place in the city of Kabul.    The Memorandum was signed by the Acting Minister of Rural Rehabilitation and Development of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan M.Karzai on behalf of the Afghan side and by the representative of the State Concern “Turkmengas” in the Board of Directors of the «TAPI...

On August 31, 2020, a founding online meeting of the International Association Turkmen Alabay dogs was held in Ashgabat, in which leading experts and dog handlers from more than 10 countries also took part. In total, the meeting was attended by about 200 delegates. As is known, on May 1, 2020, in order to implement the initiative of the President of Turkmenistan, the Association Turkmen Alabay dogs was established. According to the agenda, at the beginning of the meeting, the participants...

On August 28, 2020, a telephone conversation was held between the President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and the President of the Republic of Korea Moon Jae-in. After warmly greeting each other, the leaders of two friendly countries expressed satisfaction for the opportunity to exchange views on priority issues of interstate cooperation. In the framework of constructive conversation, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov expressed sincere gratitude to the Leader of the Republic...