On May 18, 2023, the first events within the framework of the International Economic Forum "Russia - Islamic World: KazanForum 2023" started in the capital of Tatarstan. On the sidelines of the forum, a session "On the development of the international transport corridor" North-South "" was held, in which the General Director of the Agency for Transport and Communications under the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan M.Chakiev spoke. In his speech, the head of the Turkmen delegation emphasize...

On May 18, 2023, the President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov, who arrived on a working visit to Xi'an, Shaanxi Province of the People's Republic of China to participate in “the China - Central Asia” Summit, held talks with the President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping. Chinese President Xi Jinping thanked President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov for accepting the invitation to pay a working visit to the People's Republic of China. Today's hig...

The United Nations General Assembly, led by Turkmenistan's initiative, has proclaimed November 26 as World Sustainable Transport Day. This significant proclamation stems from the inaugural Global Conference on Sustainable Transport held in Ashgabat on November 26, 2016. The resolution endorsing this day was adopted by the UN General Assembly on May 16, 2023, during the 70th plenary meeting of its 77th session. Presenting the resolution "World Day of Sustainable Transport", the Permanen...

Today, on May 17, 2023, the Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Vepa Hajiyev received the newly appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to Turkmenistan Ivan Volynkin. At the beginning of the meeting, the Russian Ambassador presented copies of his credentials. V.Hajiyev congratulated the Ambassador on his appointment to a high diplomatic post and expressed his readiness to provide assistance and support in his activities in his new post....

On May 17, 2023, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan M.Byashimova met with the newly appointed Ambassador of the Republic of Serbia to Turkmenistan Momchilo Babich (with residence in Moscow) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan. As part of the presentation of copies of credentials, the Turkmen side expressed its readiness to provide all possible assistance and support to the activities of the Ambassador in the new post. In the political and diplomatic bloc,...

On May 16, 2023, President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov received the Chairwoman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE PA) Margareta Söderfelt. The Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly reaffirmed the interest of the OSCE PA in continuing the established fruitful cooperation with neutral Turkmenistan, which pursues a creative, far-sighted foreign policy aimed at ensuring peace, prosperity and sustainable development in the regi...

Prospects for the development of mutually beneficial cooperation were discussed during a telephone conversation on May 16, 2023 between the National Leader of the Turkmen people, the Chairman of the Halk Maslahaty of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and the Rais of the Republic of Tatarstan of the Russian Federation Rustam Minnikhanov. The Chairman of the Halk Maslahaty stated with satisfaction that the expansion of cooperation with the regions of Russia, including the Republic of Tatar...