On September 23, 2019, at the UN headquarters in New York, with the adoption of the political Declaration in the field of health, the first of the five main summits of the High Level Week began, which was held under the motto “Universal Health Coverage: moving together to build a healthier world”. The delegation headed by the Deputy Minister of Health and Medical Industry of Turkmenistan took part in the summit on the Universal coverage of health services from the Turkmen side. After the o...

On September 19, 2019, a meeting was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan with the Consul-General of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Mary city Rasoul Jafari.     During the meeting, the parties noted the high level of cooperation between Turkmenistan and Iran. The diplomats spoke about the political, trade-economic and humanitarian component of bilateral ties. The effectiveness of collaboration between the regions of Mary and Khorasan-e-Razavi was underlined, particularly i...

Upon the invitation of the Russian side, starting from September 2019 the Turkmen language teacher Resul Shadjiyev arrived to the Astrakhan region and started to teach the Turkmen language to the students of the general education school named after Makhtumkuli Fraghi situated in the Funtovo village of the Privolzhskiy district of the Astrakhan region.      The teaching of Turkmen language in the Astrakhan region has started for the first time. The residents of the Funtovo village where the et...

In order to further development of bilateral relations between Turkmenistan and United Arab Emirates, effective organization of consular services provided to the population, and also in accordance with the law of Turkmenistan “On consular offices of Turkmenistan abroad”, on the 30th of August, 2019 the President of Turkmenistan signed a decree ordering the opening of a Consulate General of Turkmenistan in United Arab Emirates (Dubai city).

On August 29, 2019, the presentation of the UN Special Programme for the Aral Sea basin (UN SPAS) was held in the UN ESCAP headquarters during the Sixth Session of the Committee on Disaster Risk Reduction in the framework of the side event “Environment and Disasters: Closing the gap in the Asia and the Pacific region.” The official representatives of the UN member-states delegations, experts of the UN structural agencies working in Bangkok, as well as the representatives of the public organiz...

On August 29, 2019, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan met with the Ambassador of the Republic of Kazakhstan to Turkmenistan, Zh.A.Asanov, on the occasion of the completion of his diplomatic mission. The parties noted a high level of bilateral relations and exchanged views on the further development of cooperation between Turkmenistan and the Republic of Kazakhstan in the political-diplomatic, trade-economic, cultural-humanitarian and other fields. At the end of the meeting, o...

A telephone conversation of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan R.O.Meredov with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation S.V.Lavrov was held on the 29th of August, during which the issues of bilateral cooperation were discussed. The parties highly appraised the outcomes of the First Caspian Economic Forum which was held in Turkmenbashy city on August11-12 of the current year.  Also, the heads of external policy agencies of the two countries exchanged views on...