On March 25, 2019, political consultations were held in Israel between the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan and the State of Israel. On the Israeli side, the consultations were headed by Deputy Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel, Alexander Ben Zvi. During the talks, the sides expressed satisfaction with the state of bilateral Turkmen-Israeli relations and noted the consistency in holding political consultations, which are an effective mechanism for stre...

On the 24th of March 2019, the delegation of Turkmenistan headed by the Chairman of the Turkmen-Japanese group of inter-parliamentary friendship of the Mejlis of Turkmenistan, Deputy hyakim of the Akhal province S.Berdimuhamedov began its visit to Japan. On the 25th of March, 2019 the delegation of Turkmenistan had a meeting with the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan, Mr. Oshima Tadamori, during which the parties discussed a number of important directions of mutually beneficial...

On March 21-22, 2019, the Regional Forum on Sustainable Development held its work at the Geneva International Conference Center, in which high-level delegations from countries of the ECE region took part. Turkmenistan was represented at the forum by a delegation headed by the Deputy Minister of Finance and Economy of Turkmenistan. The opening ceremony, chaired by the Minister of Health and Social Protection of Albania, Ms. O. Manastirlyu, was attended by Under-Secretary-General of the UN,...

Turkmenistan celebrated the International Day of Novruz, the National Spring Holiday, on a large scale, the main celebrations in honor of which were unfolded in the Novruz Valley in Ahal velayat, where the building was erected in the form of a huge yurt - “Türkmeniň ak öýi”. Here, with the participation of President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, the next stage of the implementation of a large-scale landscaping program was launched. Among the guests invited to the event were representatives of th...

On March 14-15, 2019, delegation of Turkmenistan took part in the work of the 62nd regular session of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) in Vienna, Austria. The main topic of the Commission’s agenda was the fight against illicit trafficking in narcotic drugs and their precursors. The participants of the session paid attention to the issues of further strengthening the international drug control system (ISCO), compliance with the UN anti-drug conventions, and objectives o...

On March 4, 2019, a meeting was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan with the delegation of the European Union headed by Mr. Christian Berger, Head of the EU delegation in Turkmenistan (with residence in Ankara), who arrived in Turkmenistan on a working visit. During the meeting, the sides noted a significant strengthening of bilateral relations between Turkmenistan and the European Union. Also, the heads of delegations stressed the positive development of cooperation of Tu...

On the 3rd of March, 2019, a meeting of the students and faculty members with the Managing Director of the International Ocean Institute Ms.Vassalo Antonella and Advisor to the Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO Mr. Yuriy Olyunin was held at the Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan. The guests gave lectures to the students on the themes “International Ocean Institute and Capacity Development in Oce...