According to a Turkmen tradition: if passers-by encounter felt makers on their way they should have a look at a felt mat and say: “A beautiful pattern”. A usual reply to this is “A beautiful flower”. The Public Organizations Center has hosted an annual felting competition entitled ‘A Beautiful Flower’. The competition was organized by the Central Council of the Union of Women of Turkmenistan in partnership with trade-union organizations to mark the 30th anniversary of Turkmenistan’s independence...

The ancient Greek politician and philosopher Mark Tullius Cicero said: "There is nothing better and more pleasant in the world than friendship, to exclude friendship from life is the same as to deprive the world of sunlight." Today, this saying, against the background of conflicting ideas about the world order and its values, flaring up here and there regional conflicts, is seen, if not prophetic, then at least especially relevant. The severity of this problem also lies in the fact that if th...

Turkmenistan places a high priority on water and energy issues in its state policy and diplomacy, while closely cooperating with neighboring countries and international organizations on energy security and sustainable water resources management. A telling example is our country’s participation in the EU-funded Central Asia Dialogue Project: Fostering Water, Energy and Food Security and Multi-Sector Investment (WEF Nexus), implemented by the Regional Environmental Center for Central Asia (CAREC)....

National Workshop on Customs Valuation for Turkmenistan Customs was held in the format of video conference by World Customs Organization (WCO), with the support of the WCO Regional Office for Capacity Building in Baku. The five-day workshop was conducted by experts from the World Customs Organization. The purpose of the seminar was to raise awareness of the employees of the Customs Service of Turkmenistan on issues related to the determination of the customs value of goods. During the s...

Today in Avaza national tourist zone President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov who is on a working trip to Balkan region, has held an off-site meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers which considered the activities carried out for seven months of the current year, reports of deputy chairmen and determined topical tasks of social and economic development of the country and reviewed drafts of prepared documents. Having announced the agenda, the leader of the nation gave the first floor to Deputy Chairman...

Dashoguz velayat stores up wheat seed grain. By now, Dashoguz Velayat grain growers have stored up about 13,000 tons of seed grain. Ten specialized points of the velayat selected the most suitable for local soil and climatic conditions, high-yielding varieties, which are resistant to shedding and disease, such as Sahrai, Juvan, Batko among others, as seed grain. New large elevators in S. Turkmenbashi etrap and Boldumsaz etrap, which are designed for simultaneous storage and mill of 50,000 tons o...

On the 29th of July 2021, a meeting was held in the MFA of Turkmenistan between the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Berdiniyaz Myatiyev and the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the State of Qatar to Turkmenistan Mubarak bin Abdurrahman Al Nasr who is completing his mission in the country. During the meeting, the parties reiterated the commitment of two countries to further development of bilateral ties in political, trade-economic and cultural-humanitarian sp...