On November 22, 2019, political consultations between the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan and the Republic of Belarus were held in the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus. The Turkmen delegation was led by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan; the Belarusian delegation was headed by the First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus A. Evdochenko. During the meeting, the parties highly appreciated the frie...

On November 28-29, 2019, the working visit of the President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov to the Republic of Uzbekistan will take place.   Within the framework of the visit, the bilateral meeting of the President of Turkmenistan with the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev is planned to take place. The leaders of the two nations will consider the opportunities of expanding the Turkmen-Uzbek ties on the whole range of cooperation.

On November 21, 2019, in the framework of the working visit of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan to Washington, a meeting was held with the US Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy and the Environment Keith Krach.  The parties discussed the key issues of bilateral cooperation in trade-economic and transport-transit spheres, including the opportunities of expanding the partnership in the field of oil and gas industry, digital technologies and renewable sources of e...

On November 20-21, 2019, the 2019 SPECA Economic Forum “Connectivity: Sustainable Transport and Trade Facilitation in the SPECA subregion” took place in Ashgabat.    The Forum organized by the Government of Turkmenistan jointly with the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) was attended by the heads and specialists of the leading international organizations, the delegations of SPECA states-participa...

On November 21, 2019, the 14th Session of the Governing Council, the highest managing body of the UN Special Programme for the Economies of Central Asia (SPECA) was held in the hotel “Yildiz.”  This was the round-up of the “SPECA Days” in Ashgabat. The representatives of the SPECA states-participants, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), as well as the specialists working in the sphere...

On November 20, 2019, a high-level event on the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan. The event was attended by UNICEF Representative in Turkmenistan Christine Weigand, Minister of Healthcare and Medical Industry of Turkmenistan N. Amannepesov, Minister of Education of Turkmenistan M. Geldyniyazov, UNICEF specialists, young SDG ambassadors, representatives of other international organizations and diplomatic m...

On November 20, 2019, the meeting with the Special Representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Norway Eivind Nordsletten was held in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan.  After exchanging warm greetings, the parties discussed the current state of affairs of Turkmen-Norwegian relations. The necessity of activating political-diplomatic dialogue on a high level, as well as the development of economic collaboration for which good potential exists,  was noted. T...