During the period of 7 to 12 March, 2021, Delegation of Turkmenistan headed by Attorney General of the country participated in an online format in the 14th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, held in Kyoto city of Japan. High-ranking representatives of over 150 countries-members of the UN and international organizations attended the event. Minister of Justice of Japan Yoko Kamikawa was elected as the Chairwoman of the Congress. Prime-Minister of Japan Yoshihide S...

On March 11, 2021, a meeting was held via videoconferencing between the representatives of Turkmenistan and international organizations on the issues of international transport cooperation. The meeting was attended by the heads and representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Trade and Foreign Economic Relations, Ministry of Finance and Economy, as well as the state agencies of Turkmenistan specializing on transport. The representatives of relevant UN agencies, including th...

Today, on March 10, a telephone conversation was held between the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov and the Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of the Republic of South Africa Ms. Naledi Pandor. Noting the friendly nature of relations between the two countries, the parties underlined the necessity of further development of bilateral cooperation in political-diplomatic, trade-economic and cultural-humanitarian spheres. The heads of external policy ag...

On March 10, 2021, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov had a videoconference meeting with the Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO) Guy Ryder. During the meeting, the parties discussed the key directions of cooperation.  The impact of the global pandemic on the socio-economic processes in the world was discussed, as well as the opportunities of cooperation on the regional and international levels.  In this regard, the actions of Turkmenista...

On March 10, 2021, an awarding ceremony of the merited athletes of the country with the participation of the President of Turkmenistan, President of the National Olympic Committee of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov was held in the Sports Complex of the Martial Arts of the Olympic town. The ceremony was attended by the members of the Government, as well as coaches and leading athletes of the country. In the course of the ceremony the President of Turkmenistan, President of the Nation...

On March 5, 2021, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey Mevlüt Çavuşoglu arrived at Ashgabat on a two-day working visit. On March 6, in the framework of the visit, the head of the foreign policy agency of Turkey was received by President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov. President of Turkmenistan highly appraised the level of relations between the two countries, based on the principles of friendship, brotherhood and mutual respect. Then the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the R...

At the 14th Summit of the Economic Cooperation Organization that took place on 4 March 2021, the heads of states and governments of the Member States expressed their vision of the ECO work and discussed the proposals on its further development. In his speech, the President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov voiced the priorities of the country in the framework of its chairmanship in ECO in the current year.  He made special emphasis on further intensification of trade-economic relat...