Preamble   Turkmenistan considers the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly as an important milestone in the consistent consolidation of international efforts to address key issues on the global agenda, affirming the leading role of the United Nations in maintaining and strengthening global peace, stability and security and fully realizing the declared sustainable development Agenda until 2030, in promoting the continued implementation of commitments and pledges to ensure sus...

On February 7, 2018, a meeting was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan with the delegation of the United Nations Population Fund headed by the Country Director Giulia Valiese who arrived to participate in a working meeting with relevant ministries and organizations to discuss the issues of Turkmenistan's joint cooperation with UNFPA for 2018 -2019 years. In light of the importance of Turkmenistan's priority areas of cooperation with the United Nations Population Fund, issu...

On February 1, 2018, a briefing was held in the premises of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan on acquaintance with the main results of the social and economic development of Turkmenistan in 2017, with the results of the Foreign Ministry activities for the past year in the context of the implementation of the Foreign Policy Concept of Neutral Turkmenistan for 2017-2023, and also with the planned for 2018 events. The briefing was attended by representatives of Embassies and intern...

On January 30, 2018, a regular meeting of the Board of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea (IFAS) took place at the Yildiz hotel in Ashgabat. The meeting was attended by the members of the Executive Board of IFAS - the deputies of the Prime Ministers of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Republic of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and the Republic of Uzbekistan, members of the Executive Committee, representatives of the Foreign Ministry of the founding members of IFAS. The following issues w...

On January 29, 2018, the signing of the "Agreement between the Government of Turkmenistan and the United Nations Development Program about UN premises" was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan. The ceremony was attended by the heads and staff of the UNDP office and the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) in Turkmenistan, as well as the staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan. The Turkmen side stressed that one of the main directions of foreign policy of Neutral Tur...

After considering the results of the conducted audience survey, the Italian TV channel “Rai Tre” named the best travel destinations for 2018. The news agency “ОRIENT.tm” informs that Turkmenistan became the leader of the survey in the nomination "History". It is reported that the views of tourists who visited different parts of the world were studied after numerous television programs on tourism and travel, shot by the channel on the most popular destinations. Remarkably, there are many hi...

On Thursday, December 28, 2017, the succeeding test container train was launched from Changsha city - the administrative centre of Hunan Province of China,- via Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to Tehran. The route of this container train runs through the main network of Chinese railways, in particular, the Khorgos border crossing, the Altyn koy-Bolashak (Kazakhstan) railway lines, the rail network of Turkmenistan-Serhetiak, Akayla and further to Tehran. The length of the Changsha-Tehran route...