On July 28, 2017 in the office of the Permanent Mission of Turkmenistan in New York, the signing ceremony of the Joint Communiqué on the establishment of diplomatic relations between Turkmenistan and the Republic of Paraguay took place. During the signing ceremony, the Permanent Representatives of Turkmenistan and the Republic of Paraguay confirmed their interest in strengthening friendly relations between the two countries and developing bilateral political, economic and cultural cooperation...

Tickets for the upcoming Ashgabat 2017 5th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games will go on sale across the country on Saturday 29 July. With more than 700,000 tickets available for more than 220 sessions, spectators will be able to watch the best athletes from Asia and Oceania compete over 12 days of competition and across 21 sports. All session, including preliminary rounds and medal events, can be found on the Sport Competition Schedule, which the public can reference to choose the events th...

The 5th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games Executive Committee is excited to announce that Turkmenistan Airlines is the first national brand to join Ashgabat 2017 as an Official Partner. Turkmenistan Airlines is the flag carrier airline of Turkmenistan, headquartered in Ashgabat. It operates domestic and international passenger and cargo services mainly from its hub at Ashgabat International Airport. The Chairman of the 5th AIMAG Executive Committee, Dayanch Gulgeldiyev, said: “It is fant...

On June 13, 2017, in Ashgabat, under the chairmanship of His Excellency Antonio Guterres, the UN Secretary-General, a meeting of the "High-level Dialogue of Central Asia-UN" was held on the implementation of the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy in Central Asia. Dialogue was organized by the United Nations in cooperation with the Government of Turkmenistan. The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Tajikistan, the Deputy Ministers...

On July 5, 2017, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan there was a meeting with the delegation led by Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federative Republic of Brazil in Turkmenistan (with residence in Astana) Demetrio Bueno Carvalho, who arrived in Ashgabat to take part in a round table with the participation of the representatives of Brazilian companies. During the conversation, the sides noted with satisfaction the positive dynamics of the development of the r...

On June 5, 2017, the three-day Central Asian International Environmental Forum, under the motto "The Initiative for Cooperation on Environment and Sustainable Development in Central Asia", began its work in the hotel "Yildiz" in Ashgabat. Representatives of the Central Asian governments, leaders and representatives of international and regional organizations, diplomatic missions working in Turkmenistan, leading experts in the field of environmental protection, representatives of the ecologica...

On May 30, 2017, at the UN headquarters in New York on the initiative of the Permanent Mission of Turkmenistan to the United Nations, the Fifth Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games were presented. The event was attended by the Chairman of the 71st session of the UN General Assembly Peter Thomson, UN Under-Secretary General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman, Acting Deputy Secretary General for Communication and Public Information Maher Nasser, heads of UN agencies, Permanent Representatives...