Today the Parliament (Mejlis) of Turkmenistan has ratified the International Convention on Harmonization of Frontier Control of Goods and the Intergovernmental Agreement on “Dry ports”. As known, in Turkmenistan under the leadership of the country’s President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov the national programs aimed at comprehensive modernization of material and technical basis of transport sphere, expansion of existing and creation of new transport and communication networks have been developed...

Today, the Parliament of Turkmenistan has ratified the Paris Agreement approved at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP-21) in Paris on 12 December 2015 and signed by Turkmenistan on 23 September 2016 at the UN Headquarters in New York. Turkmenistan being an active supporter of the prevention of negative consequences of climate change, consistently conducts numerous events aimed at reduction of green house emissions into the atmosphere. A good example of it is the National Climate Change Str...

Сегодня по поручению Президента Туркменистана состоялась встреча уполномоченных членов Правительства Туркменистана с делегацией Республики Беларусь, возглавляемой заместителем Премьер-министра этой страны А.Н.Калининым, находящейся в Туркменистане с рабочим визитом. В ходе переговоров был обсужден широкий круг вопросов двустороннего сотрудничества. Особое внимание уделялось состоянию отдельных проектов, реализуемых в Туркменистане белорусскими компаниями. Как известно, наиболее крупным...

On 23 September the delegation of Turkmenistan continued its participation in the events of the high-level week of the 71-st session of the UN General Assembly. One of the highlights of the day was the solemn ceremony of signing by Turkmenistan of the historic Paris Agreement at the United Nations Headquarters. The signing is the first step through which the state expresses its readiness to proceed with the implementation of internal procedures necessary for preparation of agreement ratifi...

On 23 September 2016, a briefing devoted to the adoption of the new edition of the Constitution of Turkmenistan was held at the Turkmen National Institute for Democracy and Human Rights under President of Turkmenistan. The briefing was organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, the Mejlis (Parliament) of Turkmenistan, and the Turkmen National Institute for Democracy and Human Rights under President of Turkmenistan. Representatives of Embassies and International Organization...

Yesterday morning, the heads of international structures of sports journalism and media representatives, who arrived in Ashgabat at the Sports Media Forum, participated in a ceremony honoring the Turkmen athletes who distinguished themselves at the II World Nomads Games held in Kyrgyzstan. President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov made a speech at the ceremony, who stressed that the development of sports in the country and the strengthening of a healthy lifestyle is one of the main pri...

On September 19, 2016 the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) holds in Warsaw the OSCE meeting to review the implementation of the commitments, the Human Dimension implementation meeting - Europe's largest human rights conference. This meeting has been held for more than fifteen years. This two-week meeting in the Polish capital is attended by the representatives of OSCE participating States, experts on international issues, activists of non-governmental organizat...