Mission of International Monetary Fund led by Mrs Natalia Tamiris has been on a working visit in Ashgabat on November 5 – 12. The goal of the visit of the delegation of specialized United Nations institution is to assess current macroeconomic and financial situation in Turkmenistan, to discuss economic challenges and develop recommendations for development of international cooperation in monetary and financial sphere. Experts of big financial organization had number of meetings and consultati...

Turkish Gaziantep hosted International Weightlifting Tournament in the memory of three-time Olympic Champion Naim Suleymanoglu on November 15 – 17. Representative competitions were a qualification round for the Olympic Games 2020, which would be held in Tokyo next summer. By the results of the tournament, the collection of national weightlifting team has been added with gold and silver medals. There was no one equal to the third grade student of Turkmen State Institute of Physical Culture...

32 transactions were registered at the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan last week. Businessmen the UK, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, and Afghanistan purchased lighting kerosene and hydrotreated diesel fuel produced at the Turkmenbashi complex of oil refineries, as well as gasoline and diesel fuel produced at the Seydi oil refinery. Businessmen from Turkey purchased industrial sulfur (“Türkmengaz” State Concern), and businessmen from Russia purchased...

On November 15-16, 2019, according to the instructions of the President of Turkmenistan, the Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan R.Meredov was on the visit to the Republic of Uzbekistan to attend the meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Central Asian countries. During the meeting in Tashkent, the heads of external policy agencies of the Central Asia countries discussed the key aspects of cooperation in political-diplomatic, trade-...

On November 15, 2019, the photo exhibition of Islamic culture took place in the Azerbaijan National Museum of Arts in Baku that was dedicated to the history of Islamic art and culture. The event was organized in the framework of the Second Summit of World Religious Leaders.   The rector of the Turkmen State Institute of Cultue A.Aydogdiyev participated to the exhibition. The participants of the exhibition found an opportunity to get acquainted with the art pictures of the monuments located in...

President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov held regular session of the Cabinet of Ministers where outcomes of work of the branches of national economy for the past ten months, drafts State budget and number of other documents have been reviewed. Having announced the agenda, the Head of Turkmenistan gave floor to Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers G. Myradov who reported on macroeconomic indices for January – October 2019, which indicate stable development of all branches. The growth rate...

On 14-15 November 2019, the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat provided a platform for regional dialogue on the best practices and standards in use of innovative water management technologies. Representatives of the State Committee of Water Economy, the Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection, the Executive Committee of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea (IFAS) and other Turkmenistan agencies were joined by their counterparts from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekista...