After a one-year hiatus, the 44th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic, opens on July 16 in Fuzhou, the capital of the eastern Chinese province of Fujian. The session will continue online until 31 July, combining ongoing work and issues remaining unresolved from last year. The enlarged session will be chaired by Mr. Tian Xuejun, Deputy Minister of Education of China and Director of China's National Commission for UNESCO. The session will consi...

Land reform in Turkmenistan has created favorable conditions for the development of the rural economy. The provision of land plots to agricultural producers for long-term use allowed not only to significantly increase the sown area, but also to increase the efficiency of work due to technological modernization and rationalization of water consumption. For six months of this year, the members of the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Turkmenistan (UIET) have increased the volume of agri...

The Karakum Desert is one of the largest deserts in Central Asia, occupying almost 3/4 of the territory of Turkmenistan. The total area of the desert is more than 350 thousand square meters. km. It exceeds the territory of states such as Italy or Great Britain. Scientists, taking into account the peculiarities of vegetation, geological structure and soils, divide the Karakum desert into Zaunguz, Central, and South-Eastern. Zaunguz Karakum was formed over a million years ago. This is the ol...

On the 16th of July 2021, the fourth meeting of the heads of external policy agencies in the format of “Central Asia – Russia” was held in Tashkent. The session was attended by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan Mukhtar Tileuberdi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Tajikistan Sirojiddin Muhriddin, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan Abdulaziz Kamilov, First Deputy Minister...

Today, on July 16, on the sidelines of the International Conference «Central and South Asia: Regional Interconnectedness. Challenges and opportunities» Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov was received by the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev. During the meeting, R. Meredov conveyed the words of greetings and respect from President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov to the President of Uzbekista...

On the 16th of July 2021, the Turkmen delegation headed by the Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet Ministers, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov participated to the High Level International Conference “Central and South Asia: Regional Interconnectivity. Challenges and Opportunities”. The Conference was attended by more than 250 participants from 40 countries of the world, among whom the heads of states and governments, leadership of the external policy agencies, chiefs of r...

Today, on the 15th of July, the Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov met with the U.S. Homeland Security Advisor Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall. The U.S. Special representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad also participated to the meeting. The parties discussed the key aspects of Turkmen-American cooperation, in particular in the field of security. In this context, the importance of bilateral and multilateral me...