On September 17, 2021, President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov left on a working visit to the Republic of Tajikistan in order to participate in a meeting of the Council of Heads of States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) as a guest of honor. Having made a flight to Dushanbe, the presidential airliner landed at the International Airport of the capital of the Republic of Tajikistan, where the officials received the Head of Turkmenistan. Then the head of Turkmenistan...

On the 8th of September 2021, a multilateral ministerial meeting on Afghanistan took place in the format of a videoconferencing. The subject matter of the session was the situation in this country. The Foreign Ministers of more than 20 countries as well as the high-level representatives of the UN, EC and NATO also attended the virtual talk initiated by the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of the United States of America and the Federal Republic of Germany. Based on the main subject of the tal...

On September 7, a two-day online training course on effective communication between state institutions, the general public and media during pandemic and health emergencies has started. International experts from Kyrgyzstan and Israel had shared their vision on organization active interaction of state institutions with media representatives. The participants of the training course and representatives of state media of Turkmenistan exchanged the views regarding actualization of the cooperati...

On the 3rd of September 2021, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Vepa Hadjiev had a telephone conversation with Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, Minister of State for South Asia and the Commonwealth at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office of Great Britain. The parties discussed the key issues of bilateral cooperation. The sides exchanged the views regarding regional and international agenda. Special emphasis was made to particular humanitarian issues concerning the sit...

The telephone conversation of President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov with President of the European Council Charles Michel on August 29 became a major event not only in the relations of our country with this largest interstate association, but also a significant factor in the context of the entire future regional agenda, opening up new horizons and platforms for cooperation. The very fact that the head of the European Union, having initiated this conversation, turned to the Presi...

Today, on August 21, a solemn ceremony of presenting state awards to the country’s medalist in the XXXII Summer Olympic Games in Tokio Polina Guryeva was held in the Martial Arts Sports Complex of the Olympic town of Ashgabat in participation of the Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan, Honored Coach of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov. In the weight category up to 59 kg, in total for the snatch and jerk, the Turkmen athlete showed the result of 217 kg (96+212) and wo...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan informs about the following. As is known, currently a number of countries have started to evacuate their citizens who are present in Afghanistan. In this respect, Turkmenistan fulfilling its international obligations, including those originating from the international humanitarian law, provides its airspace for the transportation of the abovementioned category of persons by the aircrafts of foreign states. Press service of the MFA of Turkm...