International Weightlifting Solidarity Championship (qualification round of Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2020) has started in Tashkent on February 9. Sportsmen from 37 countries participate in the competitions, which will last until February 12. Turkmenistan national team is represented by 8 athletes. Yulduz Jumabayeva, the 4th grade student of Turkmen State Institute of Physical Training and Sports, has successfully performed. In the weigh category up to 49 kg, she lifted 72 kg in snatch...

These days, construction complex of Turkmenistan is targeted to realization of grandiose government programmes of industrialization, establishment of modern transport and social infrastructure, new import substitutive and export production facilities, construction of living and comprehensive development of the regions. Numerous industrial, social and cultural facilities are built, cities and villages are developed under these programmes and projects. White-marble Ashgabat impresses with sp...

President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov received newly appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the European Union to Turkmenistan, Diego Ruiz Alonso, who presented his credentials to the President of Turkmenistan. Taking the opportunity, the diplomat expressed deep gratitude for the warm welcome and conveyed the greetings from President of the European Council, Charles Michel, and President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, confirming the interest of the European...

In accordance with the Decree of President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Atayev Chary is appointed as Turkmenistan Representative for the European Union. http://turkmenistan.gov.tm/_eng/?id=13933

On February 10, 2020, the Joint Turkmen-Afghan Workshop on Ensuring Security of Regional Infrastructures in the framework of the “Istanbul Process” on cooperation on Afghanistan has started in Mary. The representatives of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Internal Affairs, Defense and Energy, as well as the specialists of oil and gas sectors of Turkmenistan and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, and the authorized representatives of the “Istanbul Process” states-participants are participat...

Following example of the Head of the State who made sport exercise on several kilometres long Path of Health on the day before, mass climbing along this route took place. Members of the Cabinet of Ministers, leaders of the Mejlis, military and law enforcement agencies, ministries and departments, public organizations, students of the capital’s universities and students of professional educational institutes, numerous representatives of labour collectives have gathered at the foothill of the G...

On February 8, 2020, a meeting was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan with the new Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the European Union in Turkmenistan Diego Ruiz Alonso. At the beginning of the meeting, congratulating the Ambassador on his appointment to a responsible post, the Turkmen side expressed its readiness to assist and support the activities of the EU Delegation. During the meeting, issues of cooperation between Turkmenistan and the European Uni...