On the 21st of June 2021, during the 31st meeting of the Assembly of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO Turkmenistan was elected to the membership of the Executive Council of the given Commission for the period of 2021-2023. Along with the Assembly, the Executive Council stands as the governing body of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO. The aim of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) lies in rendering assistance to internat...

On June 22, 2021, the Turkmen-Finnish consultations between the MFAs of the two countries were held in the format of a videoconference.  The Turkmen delegation was headed by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Vepa Hajiyev.  The Finnish side was represented by the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Turkmenistan (with the residence in Helsinki) Marja Elina Liivala and the representatives of the MFA of the Republic of Finland. During the meeting, the parties expr...

President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov arrived in Lebap velayat on a working visit. The airplane of the President of Turkmenistan landed at the International Airport of Turkmenabat, where government officials greeted the Turkmen leader. The Lebap Velayat Hyakim reported to President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov on the successful fulfillment of contractual obligations in the winter crops harvesting campaign. Commenting on the report, the President of Turkmenistan emphasized the importance...

According to Interfax with reference to the report and the Memorandum on the issue of Eurobonds of the Russian concern, Gazprom increases gas purchases in Turkmenistan, reducing them in Kazakhstan and stopped purchasing ‘blue fuel’ in Uzbekistan. The supplies of Turkmen gas to the Russian company resumed after a long interval in 2019 from 4 billion cubic meters, in 2020 the volume increased to 4.7 billion cubic meters. According to the Memorandum, in the first quarter of 2021, gas purchases i...

Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Strategic and Interregional Studies under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan (ISMI) reports on the intensification of relations in the economic sphere with Turkmenistan. In his analytical article "Industrial cooperation as a new form of economic cooperation in Central Asia", which was published on the Internet portal of the National Information Agency of Uzbekistan (uza.uz), Bobir Jalilov informs that relations between Turkmenistan and U...

An active and consistent policy of comprehensive support for small and medium-sized businesses, entrepreneurial initiatives of economic entities contributed to attracting entrepreneurs to create new industries, modernize existing enterprises, and manufacture products that already compete with imported ones. Enterprises that widely use the richest reserves of natural resources are opened in the country. One of such enterprises is a complex for the production of aerated concrete products and dr...

Turkmenistan went up seven positions in 2021 Global Peace Index - combined rating, which measures countries’ peacefulness in 23 criteria. In 2021, our country has taken the 109th position among 163 countries in the rating while last year, Turkmenistan occupied the 116th position. This information is given in 2021 Report of the Global Peace Index. The Global Peace Index is an index developed by sociologists and economists of international expert group of Institute for Economics and Peace toget...