On February 17, 2022, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov met with the heads and representatives of the UN structural divisions in Ashgabat. The meeting was attended by the UN Resident Coordinator in Turkmenistan Dmitry Shlapachenko, the UNDP Resident Representative in Turkmenistan Narine Sahakyan and the Acting Head of the UN Regional Center for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia Philip Saprykin. During a constructive conversation, the parties emphasized the...

Specialists of the individual enterprise "Ulke" completed a unique experiment to obtain a synthetic product - silicon carbide. For the synthesis, artificial graphite, previously manufactured by entrepreneurs, and quartz sand from local deposits were used. Andrey Kurbatov, director of IE "Ulke" says:- Many years of theoretical training and more than four years of practical activity were required for the authors of the project to prepare the experiment. The creative group of the individual ente...

On February 16, 2022, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov received the newly appointed Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Program in Turkmenistan, Ms. Narine Sahakyan. Presenting her credentials, the diplomat conveyed warm greetings to the Head of the Turkmen state from UN Secretary-General António Guterres, who expressed the deep interest of the largest and authoritative organization headed by him in further deepening long-term productive cooperation with independent T...

Last week, 89 transactions were registered at the auctions of the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan. For foreign currency, entrepreneurs from the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan purchased liquefied gas, base oil, gasoline and paraffin gas produced at the Turkmenbashi complex of oil refineries. Representatives of business circles from the UAE and Afghanistan also purchased liquefied gas produced by the State Concerns «Türkmengaz» («Tur...

On February 16, 2022, an online meeting of the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan V.Hajiyev was held with the Director of Labor Standards Department of the International Labor Organization (ILO) Corinne Vargas. During the meeting the sides underlined the high level of cooperation between Turkmenistan and the International Labor Organization. It was noted that Turkmenistan, being the member of the ILO, in its policy is committed to the creation of the conditions for decent work...

Turkmenistan produced 83 billion 772.9 million cubic meters of natural gas in 2021. This was announced by the Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers Shahym Abdrahmanov at an extraordinary meeting of the upper house of the parliament, Halk Maslakhaty. The curator of the oil and gas complex noted that during the period under review, the plan for the production of petrol was fulfilled at the level of 105 percent, bitumen - 142.3 percent, polypropylene - 105.9 percent. During the reporting p...

On February 14, 2022, a telephone conversation took place between President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. Warmly, brotherly greeting each other, the Heads of the two states expressed satisfaction with the opportunity to exchange views in a personal conversation on the current level and prospects for the development of interstate dialogue, as well as discuss some aspects of international and regional politics of mut...