On November 18, 2020, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov had a meeting via videoconference with the Director-General of the UN Office at Geneva, Secretary-General of the Conference on Disarmament Tatiana Valovaya. During the meeting, the sides stressed the high level of long-term cooperation between Turkmenistan and the United Nations in various areas. It was noted that this partnership is being replenished with new content in accordance with new realities and chal...

The heads and employees of the State Committee on Statistics of Turkmenistan, specialists from other departments involved in the process of developing the national database of Sustainable Development Goals took part in the webinar "Building reliable data ecosystems to achieve the SDGs." The event was organized by the United Nations Development Program and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. The aim of the workshop is to discuss the importance of national data and met...

Today, representatives of the Mejlis have participated in a webinar on universal health coverage in times of COVID-19 and parliamentary best practices, organized by the Inter-Parliamentary Union. As President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov emphasizes, given the serious global situation, special emphasis is now on undertaking consolidated, mutually agreed steps to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease and to tackle the pandemic aftermath. In this context, medical diplomacy has taken on new urge...

Today, representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment Protection and the Academy of Sciences have participated in an online meeting of the Technology Executive Committee of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), taking place from November 17 to November 20. The objective of the meeting, organized by the UNFCCC Secretariat (the city of Bonn, Germany) is to discuss the role of modern technologies in combating climate change. The importance of Turk...

The draft work plans for joint activities for 2021 of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Office in Turkmenistan and the ministries and departments of our country were discussed during an online meeting. From the Turkmen side, the meeting was attended by representatives of the national parliament, the Institute of State, Law and Democracy, the Ombudsman's Office, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Ju...

The D. Azadi Turkmen National Institute of World Languages and the Institute of Telecommunications and Informatics of Turkmenistan (ITIT) have jointly organized Open Door Days. As part of the Strategy for Improving Foreign Language Teaching, the two-day event with an activity-packed and informative program was held to mark 25 years of Turkmenistan’s neutrality. On the first day, the capital’s Institute of World Languages hosted a delegation of ITIT teachers and students and conducted a series...

The Joint Communiqué adopted upon the outcomes of the 16th “Central Asia – EU” Ministerial Meeting had a special clause on the significance of the initiatives of Turkmenistan aimed at the enhancement of the role of neutrality policy as a vital and efficient tool for peace building and attainment of unanimous resolutions in the international relations.      In particular, the heads of the external policy agencies of the European Union and the countries of Central Asia welcomed the initiative o...