On May 28, 2020, a high-level meeting on financing for development in the era of COVID-19 and beyond was held in video format. The event was jointly organized by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Jamaica's Prime Minister Andrew Holness. The event was attended by delegations of UN member states. From the Turkmen side, the Minister of Finance and Economics of Turkmenistan E.Annamuhammedov attended the meeting. The event was held in three segments....

On May 28, 2020, a meeting was held in a video conference format, with the participation of the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan V.Hajiev, the Secretary General of the European External Action Service (EEAS) Ms. Helga Schmid and the Deputy Foreign Ministers of Central Asian countries. During the online negotiations, the participants discussed the current state and prospects for the development of cooperation between the EU and Central Asia. The parties discussed the implemen...

On May 28, 2020, an international seminar in the format of video conferencing was held in the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan entitled: “Financing the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals: the role of integrated national financing mechanisms”. The meeting was attended by delegates at the level of ministers of the countries participating in the UN Special Program for the Economies of Central Asia (SPECA), which includes Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakh...

On May 28, 2020, a video meeting was held in the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Turkmenistan with representatives of the secretariat of the Central Asia - Republic of Korea Cooperation Forum. The head of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Turkmenistan, the Executive Director of the Secretariat of the Cooperation Forum and representatives of the Korea International Trade Association (KITA) attended the online meeting. The goal of the negotiations was to implement a project called...

An online training on border crossing facilitation for transit goods carried by rail and road, opened in Ashgabat on 27 May 2020. The training is organized by OSCE Centre in Ashgabat within the framework of the Centre’s extra-budgetary project on “Strengthening State Border Service Capacities in Turkmenistan”, which places a particular focus on promoting cross-border trade and transit in the Central Asian region. The purpose of the online training was to introduce participants to security, pu...

Development of Draft Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of Energy and Turkmenistan and the Ministry of Energy of Russian Federation on cooperation in energy sphere was the main subject of online meeting held in the Ministry of Energy of the country. It was highlighted at the talks that comprehensive strengthening and diversification of economic relations with one of strategic partners of Turkmenistan – Russia, is one of the main directions of foreign course of our state. Ther...

Online training held in the Ýyldyz Hotel of the capital was dedicated to facilitation of border crossing procedures by railroad and motor transport carrying transit cargo. Speaking of the urgency of partnership in this sphere, the participants of the meeting, which was organized together with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, highlighted importance of cooperation in such spheres as provision of efficiency of transport communications, optimization of border procedures an...