55 transactions have been registered at the trades of the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan last week. For foreign currency, brokers from the Russian Federation, Great Britain, United Arab Emirates, Switzerland, Malta, Uzbekistan and Afghanistan have purchased gasoline, hydro treated diesel fuel, lighting kerosene, petroleum bitumen, base oil, furnace oil produced at Turkmenbashy Refinery Complex. Petroleum bitumen (Seydi Refinery) and carbamide (OJSV Turkmensenagat E...

President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov held regular video conference working session of the Cabinet of Ministers. The agenda of the session included current issues of the state life. Opening the session, Turkmen leader gave floor to Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers, Foreign Minister R. Meredov who reported on preparation to official visit of the Prime Minister of Malaysia to Turkmenistan. It was mentioned that diplomatic relations between two countries have been established on May...

Today, a new two-story building has opened its doors in the village of Pyakize, Gurbansoltan eje etrap, Dashoguz velayat as part of reconstruction efforts of the local Health House. The opening ceremony was attended by representatives of velayat and etrap administrations, public organizations, elders and young people. Built by specialists of the Construction Division of the Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection, the two-story building houses a day patient department, offices of...

Today, a concert celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Galkynysh Turkmen-Austrian Symphony Orchestra has taken place in the Turkmen capital. Founded on President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov’s initiative, the Turkmen-Austrian Orchestra is now highly-acclaimed in the musical world. The past decade has seen four Viennese Balls that were a success and Culture Days of Vienna in Ashgabat, reciprocally organized performances by artists, and international festivals. The Galkynysh Orchestra was an...

For the first time in the country, steel reinforcement of concrete pillars for power lines was replaced with composite materials. The first shipment of pillars from new material for urban electricity network was produced by the capital Ferro concrete plant. Workshop for production of fibreglass reinforcement from the wastes of glass production, which has many advantages comparing with metal one, has been opened at the facility located in Byuzmeyin etrap. Compositenergo Business Entity was...

On October 21-25, 2019, the second meeting of the joint Turkmen-Georgian commission on international road transportation was held in Tbilisi. The Deputy Minister of Industry and Communication of Turkmenistan headed the delegation of Turkmenistan; the Georgian side was led by the Deputy Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia. The delegations shared information and statistics on trade turnover and volume of road transportation between the two countries. The sides discusse...

On October 25, 2019, a meeting of the Council of the Heads of Governments of the Commonwealth of Independent States was held in Moscow at the Skolkovo technology park. High-level delegations of the CIS member states as well as the Chairman of the Executive Committee - CIS Executive Secretary S. Lebedev gathered in Moscow to participate in this meeting. During the meeting of the Council in a narrow format, a lively and interested exchange of views took place on pressing issues of economic c...