The President of Turkmenistan signed the Resolution allowing the Ministry of Energy to sign the agreement with TAPP-500 Power Transmission Line FZE, which is a branch of Çalik Holding A.Ş. (Turkey) on construction of the first stage of 220 kW power line until Turkmen – Afghan border in Mary State Power Station – Herat, the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. The document assigns to start construction work in February 2020 and to complete the construction in August 2021. http://turkmenistan.go...

While visiting an exhibition at Ashgabat’s Expo Center, I saw a series of paintings by Anna Annaev that caught my attention. The focal point of his paintings is an endless expanse of the sky, so transparent and azure. The sky is so stunningly beautiful that it takes your breath away! ‘Natural Scenery’, a painting that opens the “Blue Series”, features the azure sky that merges into wavelike mountain slopes with a lake beneath, an odd-shaped peninsular resembling a pier. Graceful horses are de...

President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov held working session with participation of Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers Ch. Purchekov and Minister of energy M. Artykov. Improvement of efficiency of energy sphere as well as measures for successful fulfilment of the Programme of social and economic development of the country in 2019 – 2025 and objectives of this sphere have been discussed at the session. Establishment of wide network of energy infrastructure in Turkmenistan, modernization...

On January 23, 2020, the ninth meeting of the Turkmen-German Joint Working Group took place in Ashgabat. The Turkmen delegation was headed by the Minister of Trade and Foreign Economic Relations of Turkmenistan, while the German delegation was led by the Deputy Head of the External Policy Department of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy of Germany. During the negotiations, the issues of bilateral cooperation pertaining to various sectors of economy were discussed. The par...

On January 22, 2020, the Embassy of Turkmenistan in Romania, together with the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, organized a round table entitled “Scientific-technical policy of Neutral Turkmenistan: importance of Turkmen- Romanian relations”. A delegation of the University of Engineering and Technology named after Oguz Khan, led by Vice-rector for Academic Affairs H. Kadyrov arrived to Romania from Turkmenistan. The round table was attended by the leadership of the Polytechnic Universi...

Member of the Executive Committee of the Euronews news channel, Chief Business Development Director Roland Nikolaou, arrived in Turkmenistan on a working visit. Increasing productive cooperation in the field of broadcasting, strengthening contacts with major world TV companies, including Euronews, broadcasting in 13 languages in 160 countries, is one of the important directions of the foreign-policy strategy of peacekeeping and creation, implemented by independent neutral Turkmenistan. In...

President of Turkmenistan, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of the country, Army General Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov held extended session of the State Security Council where outcomes of activity of military and law enforcement agencies of the country for 2019 have been summed up. Priority objectives of these structures in 2020 have also been outlined. Coming over the agenda, the Head of the State gave floor for reports to the heads of military and law enforcement agencies who reported on...