The World Health Organization has launched Guidelines for Recreational Water Quality as extreme heat events occur. They outline health-based water quality targets and best practice for monitoring and surveillance, pollution control and communication efforts to let the public know if it is safe to use water bodies. The latest Guidelines include several general recommendations based on scientific evidence and best practice from around the world to better protect recreational water users. In...

23 transactions were registered at the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan last week.  Businessmen from Turkey and Virgin Islands purchased aviation kerosene and hydrotreated diesel oil produced at the Turkmenbashi complex of oil refineries.  Moreover, businessmen from Russia, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan purchased sheet glass and cotton yarn to the total amount of six million US dollars.  Businessmen from the UAE, Turkey and Kazakhstan concluded transactions in depo...

The UK-based Petro Gas LLP will build a berth on the Turkmen coast of the Caspian Sea for the export of oil products from the Turkmenbashi complex of oil refineries. A corresponding decree was signed by President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov at a government meeting in order to ensure uninterrupted supply of Turkmen oil products to foreign markets. The document allows the Turkmenbashi complex of oil refineries to conclude a contract with Petro Gas LLP (Great Britain) for the design and constructi...

The Chinese company CNPC will complete the construction of three highly complex gas wells, which were not completed by a company from the United Arab Emirates, at the largest gas field in Turkmenistan, Galkynysh. The corresponding decree was signed by President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov at a government meeting via video link. The draft document “On the completion of the construction of gas wells at the Galkynysh gas field” was presented at the meeting by the Deputy Prime Minis...

Daşoguzpagta Production Association’s cotton-ginning enterprises are now preparing for the new season. The efforts are being made to keep specialized equipment in production rooms, storage facilities, loading areas well-maintained, as well as to prevent and control the accumulation of soil and mineral dust in the air and raw cotton. If necessary, ventilation and cyclone systems, pipelines, screw-type conveyors, etc. are being repaired. Highly-skilled specialists of the Dashoguz specialized repai...

During the summer holidays, the Mejlis of the Milli Gengesh of Turkmenistan, together with the Ombudsman's Office, the Ministry of Education, with the support of the United Nations Children's Fund and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Program, conducts training seminars for children vacationing in the children's health centers in Gokdere. During information sessions, children get acquainted with the provisions and basic principles of the Convention on the Rights of...

Turkmenistan will attract a loan from the World Bank in the amount of US $ 20 million to counter the pandemic. The corresponding decision was made by President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan via video link. At the meeting, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs Serdar Berdimuhamedov reported on the progress of work on obtaining loans in the amount of 20 million US dollars under the World Bank's COVID-19 Countermeasures Project In this...