Another round of consultations took place between the International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission led by Ms. Natalia Tamirisa and the heads of the Central Bank of Turkmenistan, the Ministry of Finance and Economy and the State Committee on Statistics. The trends of economic development of Turkmenistan, the results of the first half of 2020, as well as the updated indicators for the execution of the 2020 State Budget and the draft budget for 2021 were analyzed during the videoconference meeting....

The State Commodity and Raw Material Exchange of Turkmenistan (SCRMET) will be transformed to open joint stock venture. Vice-premier Ch. Gylyjov has informed the Head of the State on work in this direction at the last session of the Government. Proposal on change of organizational and legal status has been presented to the President for review for implementation of the Strategy of improvement of activity of the SCRMET in 2020 – 2025. Taking into account that export of production made in th...

Meeting of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Turkmenistan to Russian Federation Batyr Niyazliyev with Governor of Astrakhan Region Igor Babushkin was held on September 18. In the beginning of the talks, the head of the region expressed gratitude to the President of Turkmenistan for the decision to send humanitarian aid to Astrakhan Region in the peak of coronavirus pandemic. Igor Babushkin highlighted that this gesture of goodwill was a demonstration of traditions of good neighb...

On September 18, 2020, a telephone conversation took place between President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Arif Alvi. Expressing gratitude to President Arif Alvi for the great personal contribution and attention paid to strengthening bilateral cooperation, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov noted that our states and peoples are bound by the traditions of friendship and cooperation. During the telephone conversation, it was emph...

On September 18, 2020, a meeting between the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba was held in the format of a videoconference. During the meeting, a constructive exchange of views regarding the bilateral agenda took place, as well as the level of political-diplomatic dialogue between the two countries was considered. The parties highlighted the importance of high-level contacts in the process of developing inte...

On September 17, 2020, an extraordinary meeting of the Intergovernmental Turkmen-Kazakh Commission on Economic, Scientific-Technical and Cultural Cooperation was held in Ashgabat with the participation of the heads of the leading ministries and departments of Turkmenistan and Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan Askar Mamin who arrived in our country. Within the framework of the meeting, its participants noted with satisfaction the high level of interstate relations established in rec...

On September 17, 2020, a meeting was held between President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan Askar Mamin, who arrived in our country on a working visit. Welcoming the guest, the Turkmen leader stressed that the Republic of Kazakhstan was and remains our important partner. We sincerely value the mutually respectful interstate relations established over the years and attach great importance to their development on a bilateral and multila...