On May 16-17, 2018 in Ashgabat in the conference hall of the “Grand Turkmen” hotel the 1st meeting of the Regional Working Group for the development of the "Program of Action to Assist the Countries of the Aral Sea Basin" (ASBP-4) and "Improvement of Institutional-Legal mechanisms" was organized by the Executive Committee of IFAS with the assistance of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan and with the support of the Regional Program "Transboundary Water Resources Management in Central...

On May 9-10, 2018, a Coordination Meeting of the Executive Committee of IFAS with international partners on development of programs related to solving the problems of the Aral Sea Basin took place in the conference hall of the hotel "Archabil" in Ashgabat. The main goal of the meeting was to discuss new forms of cooperation between EC IFAS and international partners on development, as well as to establish contacts and intensify the interaction aimed at solving the problems of the Aral Sea Bas...

On May 8, 2018, OSCE Human Dimension Committee meeting on "Gender Equality" took place in Vienna. The Ombudsman of Turkmenistan Y.Gurbannazarova attended this meeting and presented a report on the gender situation in the country. In her speech, Y.Gurbannazarova informed the meeting about the gender policy of Turkmenistan, equal participation of women in all spheres of socio-political, economic, social and cultural life of the country. In particular, she noted that within the framework of the...

On June 3, 2018, the United Nations will celebrate the first ever World Bicycle Day according to the resolution 72/272 of the UN which was supported by 193 Member-States of the United Nations. World Bicycle Day will allow the global cycling community to raise awareness about the importance of cycling for all and in everyday ways all over the world. World Bicycle Day will assure us that the past, present, and future of the bicycle will be well preserved for generations to come. After all, c...

Within the framework of the 30th session of the Working Group of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), held in May 2018 in Geneva, Switzerland, the delegation of Turkmenistan, headed by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan V. S. Khadzhiev, took part on May 7, 2018 at the 3rd review of Turkmenistan. In the course of the above-mentioned event, the Turkmen side made a presentation on the main directions of Turkmenistan's policy to implement the commitments undertaken in the fiel...

Within the framework of the 30th session of the Working Group of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), held in May 2018 in Geneva, Switzerland, the delegation of Turkmenistan, headed by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan V. S. Khadzhiev, took part on May 7, 2018 at the 3rd review of Turkmenistan. In the course of the above-mentioned event, the Turkmen side made a presentation on the main directions of Turkmenistan's policy to implement the commitments undertaken in the fiel...

The first issue of the quarterly, scientific-practical magazine "Foreign Policy and Diplomacy of Turkmenistan" prepared by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan has been published this month. The magazine is opened by an article dedicated to one of the main events of 2018 - solemn ceremonies on the occasion of the start of the construction on February 23, 2018 in the Serhetabat district of the Mary province and in the Afghan city of Herat, the Afghan section of the Turkmenistan-Afgh...