Representatives of the Mejlis took part in the five-day informational Seminar for Parliamentarians held in videoconference format by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) on March 22-26. The main areas of the IPU work, the aspects of its participation in the work of the UN General Assembly within the framework of the UN observer status were considered during the forum. Particular attention was paid to the role of parliaments in ensuring human rights and freedoms, the implementation of internati...

An important social and political event - the first elections of members of the Halk Maslahaty Milli Gengesh will be held in Turkmenistan on Sunday, March 28. In general, 112 candidates to the members of the Halk Maslahaty Milli Gengesh have been registered in Turkmenistan. Thus, 2-3 people run for the Halk Maslahaty member per each mandate that testifies to the alternative nature of the elections. It should be noted that about 26 % of candidates are women, and this fact vividly demonstrat...

On the 25th of March 2021, a meeting via videoconferencing was held between the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov and the Chairman of the Japanese-Turkmen Committee on Economic Cooperation, Managing Executive Officer of “ITOCHU Corporation” Hiroyuki Tsubai.  The Chairman of the State Bank for Foreign Economic Activities of Turkmenistan Rahimberdi Jepbarov and the Corporate Officer of Japanese Company “SUMITOMO Corporation” Gota Iwanami also took part in the meeting. ...

On the 25th of March 2021, the eighth session of the High-level Group on Facilitating Trade and Investments in the framework of the Intergovernmental Turkmen-Russian Commission on Economic Cooperation was held in the format of a videoconference. The Turkmen delegation was headed by the Deputy Minister of Trade and Foreign Economic Relations of K.A.Kurbanov, while the Russian side was led by the Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation D.V.Volvach. The parties discu...

On the 25th of March 2021, the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in Turkmenistan organized an online briefing entitled “The Peace Process of Afghanistan: Current State, Challenges and Solutions”. The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Vepa Hajiyev, Head of the Afghan Government’s Peace Negotiation Team Mohammed Masoom Stanekzai, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Afghanistan to Turkmenistan Khan Wali Khan Basharmal, as well as the representatives of t...

I first met Murad Hojakuliev at the Kopetdag Stadium a few years ago when I went for a morning run. Standing on the edge of the football field, he was flying a small model airplane with his full attention focused on it. Murad made his remote-controlled fun flyer do inconceivable aerobatic maneuvers: it suddenly soared upwards, performed figures-of-eight and loops, turned upside down in the air, and flew fast over the green field almost touching it with its fin. But the most impressive sight o...

The ceremony of commissioning six greenhouse complexes took place today. These specialized facilities were built in Kaahka and Ak Bugday districts of Ahal Region, in the Turkmenbashi Balkan Region, in Gyorogly district, Dashoguz Region, the Charjew district, Lebap Region and Sakarchaga district, Mary Region. Total area of the hothouses is 35 hectares. New agricultural facilities equipped with advanced technologies were erected by representatives of the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneur...