On 22nd of June 2021, the signing ceremony was held in New York, at the Permanent Mission of Turkmenistan to the United Nations. The Joint Communiqué was signed on the establishment of diplomatic relations between Turkmenistan and the Republic of Niger.  Prior to the signing ceremony, Permanent Representative of Turkmenistan to the UN, Ambassador Aksoltan Ataeva and Permanent Representative of the Republic of Niger to the UN, Ambassador Abdou Abarry held talks. They confirmed mutual interest...

According to Interfax with reference to the report and the Memorandum on the issue of Eurobonds of the Russian concern, Gazprom increases gas purchases in Turkmenistan, reducing them in Kazakhstan and stopped purchasing ‘blue fuel’ in Uzbekistan. The supplies of Turkmen gas to the Russian company resumed after a long interval in 2019 from 4 billion cubic meters, in 2020 the volume increased to 4.7 billion cubic meters. According to the Memorandum, in the first quarter of 2021, gas purchases i...

On the 21st of June 2021, during the 31st meeting of the Assembly of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO Turkmenistan was elected to the membership of the Executive Council of the given Commission for the period of 2021-2023. Along with the Assembly, the Executive Council stands as the governing body of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO. The aim of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) lies in rendering assistance to internat...

They say that in ancient times there was a special punishment for stealing a melon: a person who stole a melon at the bazaar getting twice as many cuffs as a person who coveted other fruits. As if for the fact that the thief is also a lazy person, because it costs nothing to grow a melon - throw a seed into the ground, sit and wait: the melon grows by itself, ripens by itself. Is it really? Those who were born on the Turkmen land know that she, like a caring mother, brings up her children in har...

On June 22, 2021, the Turkmen-Finnish consultations between the MFAs of the two countries were held in the format of a videoconference.  The Turkmen delegation was headed by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Vepa Hajiyev.  The Finnish side was represented by the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Turkmenistan (with the residence in Helsinki) Marja Elina Liivala and the representatives of the MFA of the Republic of Finland. During the meeting, the parties expr...

At present, because of the market reforms carried out in the country, the share of the non-state sector in the country's GDP, excluding the fuel and energy complex, has reached 70 percent. This is not only quantitative growth, characterized by an increase in the number of private economic entities and entrepreneurs, the growing contribution of the non-state sector of the economy to the State budget, but also a new quality, a wider scale of entrepreneurial activity. Today, Turkmen entrepreneurs m...

Today, on June 21, the Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov met via videoconferencing with the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Kairat Abdrakhmanov. The parties expressed content with the current level of cooperation between Turkmenistan and the Office of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities. During the meeting, an analysis of current and prospective projects in the framework of the human dimension...