On December 9, 2024, the Foreign Ministry of Turkmenistan hosted a meeting between the Minister of Foreign Affairs Rashid Meredov and the UN Assistant Secretary-General for the Rule of Law and Security Institutions Alexander Zuyev, who arrived in Ashgabat to participate in the International Conference "Joint Efforts to Strengthen International Peace and Sustainable Development", as well as other events in honor of the International Day of Neutrality. During the meeting, the parties noted the...

On December 2, 2024, during the 43rd plenary meeting of the 79th session of the UN General Assembly, the resolution submitted by Turkmenistan on behalf of the Central Asian countries “Treaty on a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Central Asia” was adopted. Presenting the draft resolution, Permanent Representative of Turkmenistan to the United Nations A. Atayeva thanked the UN Member States for supporting the project and emphasized that the Treaty on a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Central Asia is an...

On December 5, 2024, a meeting of States parties to the Central Asian Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan on the theme “Strengthening cooperation among existing nuclear-weapon-free zones”. The meeting was dedicated to the 15th anniversary of the entry into force of the Central Asian Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty. Turkmenistan is hosting this meeting in the framework of its chairmanship of the Central Asian Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone T...

On 28 November 2024, representatives of Turkmenistan participated via videoconference in the XXVIII Special Session of the General Conference of the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (OPANAL). The Turkmen side, chairing the Treaty on a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Central Asia, was invited to the event as an observer. During the session, the address of the Secretary General of OPANAL was heard, as well as the reports of the Council of the Agenc...

On 28 November 2024, a meeting was held at the MFA of Turkmenistan between the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov and the Executive Secretary of the International Centre for Transport Diplomacy (ICTD) Igor Runov. The sides emphasized the importance of the high-level meeting of the Group of Friends for Sustainable Transport in Ashgabat in the framework of the International Conference and Exhibition «International Transport and Transit Corridors: Interconnectivity and De...

On 27 November 2024, President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov received the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Road Safety Jean Todt, who arrived in Ashgabat to participate in the International conference “International Transport-Transit Corridors: Interconnectivity and Development – 2024”. Mr.Jean Todt emphasised that he has fond memories of his visit to Turkmenistan in 2013 upon the invitation of Chairman of the Halk Maslahaty Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and meeting wi...

On 27 November 2024, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov met with the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Road Safety Jean Todt. During the meeting, the sides noted that in recent years Turkmenistan has become an effective platform for dialogue in the field of transport. In this regard, the parties noted the importance of the two-day International Conference and Exhibition “International Transport-Transit Corridors: Interconnectivity and Development...