The 2020 Senior and Junior Aeromodeling Championships have taken place not far from Ashgabat. Aeromodelers with radio-controlled aircrafts were the first to compete. Four masters of sports contested to be crowned a national champion. Controlled from the ground, airplanes had to remain airborne for as long as 8 minutes after taking off and then land at a designated place. Points were awarded for the flight time and the precision of landing. A strong wind (8-10 m/sec) made the competition ev...

Private firm Ak Hünji has started production of plastic sheets from locally-produced polypropylene. Pilot batches were made using new extrusion machines. Raw materials are supplied from a gas chemical complex manufacturing polymers in the Balkan region. According to director general Bekmamed Charyev, polypropylene sheets have a wide range of applications. They are an ideal material for swimming pools, ventilation systems, laboratory equipment, food containers, and cladding. The sheets have ex...

President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov held a working meeting with the participation of Deputy Chairmen of the Cabinet of Ministers B. Ovezov and G. Mushshikov, who are in charge of the transport and communication, financial and economic sectors. Opening the meeting, the President noted that given the difficult epidemiological situation in the world and the region, it was important to maintain steady paces of development of all segments of the economic complex. Moreover, great attention should b...

On May 20, 2020, a telephone conversation took place between the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov and Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Francois-Philippe Champagne. During the conversation, the parties exchanged views on the current situation related to the COVID-19 pandemic and measures to counter its spread. At the same time, mutual readiness for the implementation of coordinated actions was emphasized, using the opportunities of bilateral partnership. The su...

Today, on May 20, 2020, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan R. Meredov held talks in the form of a video conference with the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Italian Republic Manlio Di Stefano. The heads of the Foreign Ministries reviewed the current situation and measures to counteract the spread of a new type of coronavirus - COVID-19. At the same time, the willingness to use the experience and interaction potential available in the asset of bi...

On May 20, 2020, the Seventh Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development was held in videoconference format in Bangkok. This forum, organized under the auspices of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), brought together a significant number of officials, experts and specialists from Member States and other members of the organization. At the forum, the Turkmen delegation was headed by the Minister of Finance and Economics of Turkmenistan. During the onlin...

On May 20, 2020, consultations were held in online format between the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan and Switzerland. The Turkmen side was headed by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan V.Hajiev. The Swiss delegation was led by Ambassador Anna Ivkovits Horner, Director of the Department of Europe, Central Asia, Council of Europe and the OSCE of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland. The agenda of the consultations included issues of further deve...