On August 28, 2020, a telephone conversation was held between the President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and the President of the Republic of Korea Moon Jae-in. After warmly greeting each other, the leaders of two friendly countries expressed satisfaction for the opportunity to exchange views on priority issues of interstate cooperation. In the framework of constructive conversation, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov expressed sincere gratitude to the Leader of the Republic...

Powerful booster compressor station will be put into operation soon at Malay Gas Field in Lebap Region. Most of construction works has been accomplished. Design capacity of the station is 30 billion cubic meters of gas per year. The Malay Field in Karakums, which is located 80 km away from Turkmenabat, is under industrial development for more than 20 years. For all these year, gas complex has not only provided cities, villages and industrial facilities of the eastern region with gas but also...

Construction of first private warehouse complex for storage of 30 tons of agricultural and food production has started on Dashoguz Region. The complex is built in S. A. Niyazov district by member of the Union Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of the country R. Saburov. Total are of new facility will be o,7 hectares. It will have optimum conditions for long-term and qualitative storage of food production. The project provides two warehouses and one administrative building as well as technical f...

Beneficial geographic location of Turkmenistan provides its strengthening status of important transit and transport hub of Eurasia. The potential of our country in this sphere impresses taking into account new transnational Kazakhstan – Turkmenistan – Iran railroad, Kerky – Ymamnazar (Turkmenistan) – Akina (Afghanistan) railway line, railway and motor bridges across Amudarya River, super modern airports in Ashgabat, Turkmenbashy, Turkmenabat and other cities. Special role in development of lo...

Resolutions on Joining of the country to number of international agreements, which include the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals and Agreement on the Protection of Afro-Eurasian Migratory Wetland Birds, have been adopted at the 10th session of the Mejlis of the 6th convocation on August 22. We have asked Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor Eldar Rustamov to comment on this event, which indicates active position of our country in solution of natural conse...

I first saw works by Gulyara Babaeva once visiting an exhibition. The paintings drew me like a magnet with a sense of great sincerity and the young artist’s creative signature style. On hearing my enthusiastic response, one of the visitors advised me to have a look at her handcrafted ceramics. I must confess that I did not give due consideration to them at that time thinking of the ceramic works as the young artist’s hobby. Quite the opposite, in fact: Gulyara Babaeva is a ceramist and her pa...

Representatives of the Ministry of Trade and Foreign Economic Relations took part in an online meeting with the heads of the EXPO-2020 steering committee. The organizational issues of the global forum were discussed during the meeting. As reported, taking into account the epidemiological situation in the world, Turkmenistan supported the initiative put forward by the UAE to postpone EXPO-2020 to next year. In this regard, the parties called for the intensification of mutually beneficial co...