On May 10, 2022, a regular meeting of the General Assembly of the National Olympic Committee of Turkmenistan was held in Ashgabat. As part of its agenda, a report on the activities of the NOC in the period 2016-2021 was heard, issues related to the election of the President of the National Olympic Committee of the country were considered. In view of the significant contribution to the development of domestic sports and the international Olympic movement, increasing the sports authority of the...

Last week, 49 transactions were registered at bids of the State Commodities and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan. Businessmen from the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Hong Kong, Afghanistan, and Uzbekistan purchased gasoline, hydro-treated diesel fuel, aviation kerosene, reduced gas, and mixed paraffin gas produced at the Turkmenbashi Complex of Oil Refineries in the foreign currency. Polyethylene produced by the Türkmenhimiýa State Concern has become the subject of tr...

On May 10, 2022, a joint meeting of the Interdepartmental Commission on the implementation of international obligations of Turkmenistan in the field of human rights and international humanitarian law and the UN country team was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. A meeting was attended by representatives of the Halk Maslakhaty and the Mejlis of the Milli Gengesh of Turkmenistan, a number of ministries and sectoral departments, public organizations, international structures accredited in...

On May 12-13 this year, Ashgabat will host the Inter-Parliamentary Forum and the Dialogue of Women from Central Asia and Russia. These two forums between legislators and women of the Central Asian countries and the Russian Federation will be held at the initiative of Turkmenistan. According to experts, the organization of a direct multilateral inter-parliamentary dialogue between the countries of Central Asia and Russia opens up great prospects for developing partnerships in this format.Th...

On May 9, 2022, the Embassy of Turkmenistan in Islamabad, together with the Pakistan Institute for Peace and Diplomatic Studies, held a seminar entitled “30 years of Pakistan-Turkmenistan Relations: Way Forward”, dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Turkmenistan and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The forum was attended by representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan, prominent politicians, heads of think tanks, business ci...

Today, on May 9, in honor of the anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, a flower-laying ceremony was held at the monuments of the «Halk hakydasy» memorial complex. The ceremony was attended by the Chairman of the Halk Maslakhaty of the Milli Gengesh of Turkmenistan G.M. Berdimuhamedov, who before it met with the heads of diplomatic missions and representatives of international organizations accredited in Ashgabat. During the meeting, the Chairman of the Halk Masla...

The museum of folk crafts, located in the old building of the Dashmechet madrasah on the territory of the Kunyaurgench State Historical and Cultural Reserve, houses one of the largest collections of ancient beads in the country. Many of them were discovered from 2009 to 2020 by the staff of the reserve during various search works on the territory of architectural and archaeological monuments of the Dashoguz velayat, including the ancient city of Izmykshir (Zamakhshara), medieval fortresses -...