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...

The final Declaration of the International Sports Congress "Asian Games 2017: International Sport Cooperation for the sake of peace and progress", held on April 7, 2017 in the Avaza National Tourism Zone of Turkmenistan, was released on May 10, 2017 in six official languages of the United Nations as an official document of the 71st Session of the United Nations General Assembly.

On May 5, 2017, a joint photo exhibition organized by the Permanent Missions of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan was held at the UN Headquarters in New York. The work of the exhibition was attended by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, heads of UN agencies, Permanent Representatives of the UN member states. Opening the photo exhibition as a Dean, the Permanent Representative of Turkmenistan to the UN A.Ataeva noted th...

The Joint Statement of Turkmenistan and Brazil "On Encouraging the Valuable Contribution of the Olympic Teams of Refugees to the Promotion of Peace and Human Rights" adopted on September 15, 2017, at the 36th session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHCR) in Geneva, Switzerland, on the initiative of the Government of Turkmenistan was supported by many foreign governmental and international experts in the field of human rights. For example, on its online information portals, the US diplomatic...