On Oсtober 17, 2019, a meeting with the new Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to Turkmenistan Najibullah Alikhil was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan. At the beginning of the meeting, the Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan presented the copies of his credentials. Congratulating the Ambassador on his appointment to a responsible post, the Turkmen side expressed its readiness to provide all possible assistan...

On October 16, 2019, in Minsk, under the chairmanship of Turkmenistan, a meeting of the Council of Permanent Plenipotentiaries of the Member States of the Commonwealth under its statutory and other bodies was held. During the meeting, the results of the recent Summit of the Heads of States of the Commonwealth of Independent States in Ashgabat and the tasks of the CIS Executive Committee on the implementation of the adopted documents were discussed. As was emphasized, the main outcome docum...

On October 16, 2019, a meeting was held between the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan R. Meredov and the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United Kingdom to Turkmenistan, Mr. Hugh Stanley Philpott, during which the diplomat presented copies of his credentials to the Turkmen side. The diplomats discussed a wide range of issues regarding the political-diplomatic, trade-economic and cultural-humanitarian interaction of the two countries. They also considered the possi...

On October 16, 2019, the Turkmen-Iranian business forum was held in the metropolitan hotel "Archabil", to participate in which a representative delegation from government agencies and business circles of the Islamic Republic of Iran arrived in Ashgabat. The Iranian delegation to the business forum brought together representatives of a number of government agencies and organizations, as well as 30 companies specializing in trade, pharmaceuticals, agriculture and water recourses, engineering se...

On October 14-15, 2019, the delegation of Turkmenistan, headed by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan B. Myatiev, held consultations with the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Italian Republic, Mr. Manlio Di Stefano. During the meeting, issues of expanding bilateral cooperation in the political-diplomatic, trade-economic, cultural and humanitarian fields were discussed. Particular attention was paid to the organization of the upcoming o...

On October 15, 2019, the 15th meeting of the Intergovernmental Turkmen-Iranian Commission on Economic Cooperation was held in the premises of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan. The meeting of the Commission was headed by: from the Turkmen side, Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan, Minister of Foreign Affairs R. Meredov, from the Iranian side - Minister of Roads and Urban Development of the Islamic Republic of Iran M. Eslami. At the beginning of the mee...

The first International Theater Festival “ABISH ALEMI” was held on October 11-14, 2019 in the Kazakh city of Aktau, which was dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the outstanding Kazakh writer Abish Kekilbaev. Theater groups from Armenia, Georgia, Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan took part in the festival. Turkmenistan was represented at the festival by the State Music and Drama Theater of Lebap Province named after Seyitnazar Seydi. The play “Dayakhatyn”, pre...