On March 5, 2020, on the sidelines of the 63rd session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs and Crime in Vienna, at the initiative of the delegation of Turkmenistan, a parallel event was held on the theme of “Strengthening regional cross-border cooperation in Central Asia to prevent drug trafficking in new trade and transit corridors ". This event was organized in collaboration with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Organized Crime (UNODC) and the representation of the Republic of Uzbe...

On February 28, 2020, a seminar was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan on the outcomes of the high-level conference “Green Central Asia” and the 9th meeting of the EU-CA working group on the environment and climate change. The meeting was attended by representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Agriculture and the Environment, the State Committee for Water Management and the Academy of Sciences of Turkmenistan, as well as the Ambassadors of the European...

On the 27th of February 2020, Turkmen-Afghan Business Forum was held in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan. From the Turkmen side, the heads and representatives of a number of ministries and agencies of the country, including the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry participated to the Forum. Among the participants of the representative delegation of Afghanistan, there were specialists of trade-economic sector of the country and priva...

On February 26, 2020, a three-day seminar entitled “the National preparation to mutual assessment by the Eurasian Group: best practices of the OSCE states” has begun in Ashgabat. The representatives of various ministries and state entities of Turkmenistan, including the Ministry of Finance and Economy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Central Bank and State Committee for Statistics are taking part in the event. Also among the participants, there are representatives of the private sector and non-c...

On February 14, 2020, the successive session of the National Leading and Coordinating Committee of the Partnership Framework Development Program between Turkmenistan and the UN for 2016-2020 was held in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan. The representatives of the relevant ministries and departments of Turkmenistan, UN Resident Coordinator in Turkmenistan, as well as representatives of UN agencies and public organizations attended the meeting. The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affa...

On February 12–13, 2020, the delegation of Turkmenistan participated in the ninth session of the meeting of the EU–Central Asia working group on environment and climate change that was held in Brussels. The specialists and experts working in the sphere of nature protection, climate change and water resources of the countries of Central Asia and the European Union took part in the session.  The meeting was organized in the framework of the EU–Central Asia Platform on cooperation in the area...

On February 12, 2020, a side-event dedicated to the “National Strategy of Turkmenistan for the Prevention of Violent Extremism and Countering Terrorism for 2020-2024” was held in the margins of Joint Regional High-level Conference on terrorism convened by the OSCE, UNOCT and Switzerland, in cooperation with the Albanian OSCE Chairmanship in Vienna, Austria. The event was organized by Permanent Mission of Turkmenistan to International Organizations in Vienna jointly with OSCE and UNRCCA. Mr. V...