On December 10, 2018, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan there was a meeting with the delegation led by Ms. Ashita Mittal, Regional Representative for Central Asia of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), who arrived in Ashgabat on a working visit. At the beginning of the meeting, the Turkmen side thanked the UNODC regional representative for accepting an invitation to participate in the events dedicated to International Neutrality Day and the active participat...

On December 11, 2018 in the building of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Turkmenistan there was an opening ceremony of the international scientific conference "The heritage of the Great Silk Road and present international relations" and the exhibition dedicated to the International Neutrality Day. The conference was attended by the deputies of the Mejlis, heads of the ministries and departments, diplomats of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, heads and representatives of...

On December 11, 2018, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan R. Meredov, held talks with the delegation of the United States of America led by the US Special Representative for Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad. During the meeting, noting the positive results of joint cooperation in enhancing bilateral relations between Turkmenistan and the United States of America, the sides expressed interest in their further diversification. After exchanging views on the development of the political s...

On December 6, 2018, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov visited the Russian Federation on a working visit to attend an informal meeting of the heads of CIS member states. President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov proceeded to the Boris Yeltsin Library from the St. Petersburg International Airport, where a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council was held under the chairmanship of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. After mutual greetings and traditional photo-sharing...

On December 7, 2018 at the capital’s hotel “Yildyz” there has finished the work of the international conference on ministers’ level “Importance of the Great Silk Road: present and future development”. During the conference there were discussed the following themes: “From Historical Routes to Modern Highways: Revival of the Great Silk Road”, “Shared Heritage and Plural Identities along the Silk Road” and “Spreading of Culture through Commerce along the Great Silk Road”. The conference, which w...

On December 7, 2018 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan there was a meeting with Japanese delegation, led by the head of the Direction for International projects of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry of Japan Takasi Yosioka, who has arrived to Ashgabat on a working visit. During the meeting both sides noted the significant reinforcement of cooperation between Turkmenistan and Japan. They also stopped on a positive development and strategically character of bilateral relation...

On December 6, 2018, at the “Yyldyz” Hotel of the capital there was held the opening ceremony of an international conference at the ministerial level on the theme: “Importance of the Great Silk Road: Present and Future Development”, organized by UNESCO in cooperation with the Government of Turkmenistan. At the opening ceremony of the conference, the Minister of Culture of Turkmenistan A. Shamyradov made an opening speech. Then he gave the floor to the Deputy Chairwoman of the Cabinet of Minis...