This is a familiar truth that the fights are at the front but the victory is achieved in the rare area. This is the place on the southeast of former Soviet Union where the plants and factories re-equipped for military needs produced necessary aircrafts, tanks, weapons and artillery. Evacuation hospitals were opened in Turkmenistan where wounded soldiers were recovering; refugees who had to leave the places occupied by the enemy were coming here as well. Today, recollecting our compatriots who wo...

On May 9-10, 2018, a Coordination Meeting of the Executive Committee of IFAS with international partners on development of programs related to solving the problems of the Aral Sea Basin took place in the conference hall of the hotel "Archabil" in Ashgabat. The main goal of the meeting was to discuss new forms of cooperation between EC IFAS and international partners on development, as well as to establish contacts and intensify the interaction aimed at solving the problems of the Aral Sea Bas...

On May 8, 2018, a meeting was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Moldova in Turkmenistan (with residence in Kiev) Mr. Ruslan Bolbochan. During the negotiations, the parties discussed the current state and prospects for the development of cooperation. The participants of the meeting noted the need for intensification of the political dialogue, diplomatic interaction within the framework of internation...

Within the framework of the 30th session of the Working Group of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), held in May 2018 in Geneva, Switzerland, the delegation of Turkmenistan, headed by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan V. S. Khadzhiev, took part on May 7, 2018 at the 3rd review of Turkmenistan. In the course of the above-mentioned event, the Turkmen side made a presentation on the main directions of Turkmenistan's policy to implement the commitments undertaken in the fiel...

The first issue of the quarterly, scientific-practical magazine "Foreign Policy and Diplomacy of Turkmenistan" prepared by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan has been published this month. The magazine is opened by an article dedicated to one of the main events of 2018 - solemn ceremonies on the occasion of the start of the construction on February 23, 2018 in the Serhetabat district of the Mary province and in the Afghan city of Herat, the Afghan section of the Turkmenistan-Afgh...

On May 7, 2018, the Embassy of Turkmenistan in Romania together with the Diplomatic Institute under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania organized a round table on "Creating a modern multimodal transport infrastructure - the key to success in the revival of the Great Silk Road". The State Secretary of the Ministry of Transport of Romania, Maria Magdalena Grigore, took part as the main guest of the event. Representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Parliament, the Ministry of Bus...

On May 7, 2018, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan there was a meeting with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Indonesia to Turkmenistan (with the residence in Tehran) Mr. Octavino Alimudin. At the beginning of the meeting, the sides expressed the need for further consolidation of efforts in developing cooperation between Turkmenistan and the Republic of Indonesia and exchanged views on the current state and prospects for expanding bilateral co...