Turkmenistan and ten OSCE member states are calling for the preservation of military burial sites and memorials honoring those killed fighting the Nazis during World War II and not allowing for the glorification of Nazism. According to TASS, the joint statement was made on Thursday by permanent representatives of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan at the OSCE on the occasion of the 76th anniversary...

Four students from our country have become prizewinners of the Regional French Language Olympiad, having secured a place for the team of Turkmenistan in the top three. Held for the first time, the Olympiad was organized by the French Cultural Network for Central Asia in collaboration with the Embassies of France in the Central Asian countries. Over 350 students from Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan participated in the Olympiad. Our country was represented by 24...

Online meeting within the framework of the project of the Regional Environmental Center for Central Asia (CAREC) focused on cooperation on combating climate change. Representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection, as well as public organizations of Turkmenistan on environmental protection took part in the meeting. During the videoconference, the measures taken in the Central Asian countries to mitigate climate change and the possibility of attracting the resources...

President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov has held video conference session of the Cabinet of Ministers, at which the results of work of the branches of national economy for four months have been summed up. Opening the session, the head of the state has given tie floor to Speaker of the Mejlis of National Assembly G. Mammedova and Deputy Chairman of the People’s Council of National Assembly K. Babayev. Speaker of the Mejlis of National Assembly G. Mammedova has informed about law-making activity...

During the session of the Government, the head of the state has informed that he finished working on his new book, which was named “Ak şäherim Aşgabat” (“White city Ashgabat”). The capital of independent neutral Turkmenistan is a heart of our Motherland. This is a center embodying international authority of our state and its place in the world community. Ashgabat is one of economically developed and beautiful cities of the world with high level of culture. Its image matches the variety of nat...

During the session of the Government on May 7, the head of the state has focused that the Victory Day falls on other holidays observed in the holy month of Ramadan this year. Taking into account the traditions and customs of our people as well as other events, the President of Turkmenistan proposed to hold all celebration events on the evening of May 9. Flower laying ceremony to the Memorial Complex “People’s Memory” will be held on this day, after which food donation will be given to pay tri...

Veterans of the Great Patriotic War and widows of lost soldiers will receive monetary and valuable gifts in honor of the Victory Day. President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov has signed relative Order at the video conference session of the Government. The document assigns administrations of regions, cities and districts to present monetary gifts to the amount of 200 manats and valuable gifts on behalf of the President Turkmenistan to war veterans and widows lost soldiers in honor of the 76th anniv...