Application of Ashgabat has been officially accepted by the Secretariat of the UNESCO for inclusion to the Smart City network in Design category. The application will be studied by independent experts within several months and the final decision will be announced by the UNESCO General Secretary on the threshold of the celebration of the World City Day, which is observed on October 31. The UNESCO Smart City Network was established in 2004 for development of international cooperation between...

Webinar on creation of the institute of authorized representative for protection of entrepreneurs’ rights (business ombudsman) was held in Ashgabat under the project “Safe Migration in Central Asia”. The event was organized by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime with support of the Foreign Ministry of Turkmenistan. In the context of national strategy for strengthening of private sector of the economy, the establishment of the i...

President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov has made a working trip to Ahal Region inspecting production activity of Miwe Open Joint Stock Company and facilities of its engineering and technical infrastructure. Matters related to rational use of water in agricultural complex and water management sphere in general were the subjects of close attention of the head of the state. Comprehensive development of agricultural complex and best optimal implementation of its potential are priorities of economic s...

31 winners and 95 prize-winners - the result of participation of representatives of Turkmenistan in two rounds of the Open International Student Internet Olympiad, organized by Volga State University of Technology (Yoshkar-Ola, Republic of Mari El, Russian Federation). More than 3,000 from 205 universities in Russia, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Belarus, Slovenia participated in the Olympiad. The student intellectual contest was held in the following discip...

Cyber/ICT security Conference was organized by headquarters of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (Vienna, Austria) on May 4-5. The “Türkmenaragatnaşyk” Agency, the Institute of Telecommunications and Informatics, and a number of other relevant ministries and departments took part in the online conference aimed at sharing experiences between the OSCE member states in this important area. As you know, in the modern world, information and communication technologies have...

Today, on the 4th of May, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov held a telephone conversation with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic Ruslan Kazakbaev.  During the talk, the parties discussed the key directions of bilateral cooperation. The Ministers underlined the necessity of intensifying political consultations between the external policy agencies of Turkmenistan and the Kyrgyz Republic. The parties also emphasized the importance of bilate...

On May 4, 2021, the meeting was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to Turkmenistan Victor Mayko. During the meeting, key issues of cooperation between the two countries in the trade, economic, cultural and humanitarian spheres, as well as the implementation of the agreements reached earlier were discussed. In this context, a number of practical steps were discussed aimed at enhancing bilateral partnership...