On September 2, 2020, a meeting was held between the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic Chingiz Aidarbekov. The talks took place via videoconferencing.  During the constructive conversation, the heads of MFAs considered the agenda of bilateral relations, as well as exchanged views concerning the preparations to the Third Consultative Meeting of the Heads of States of the Central Asian region to be held in the c...

On September 2, 2020, a videoconference meeting was held between the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov and the Acting Chairman of the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Ajmal Ahmadi. During the constructive meeting, the parties focused on the need to further strengthen and develop ties across all ranges of mutually beneficial Turkmen-Afghan cooperation. As is known, Turkmenistan invariably stands for the creation of the necessary socio-economic, in...

On August 31, 2020, the signing ceremony of the “Memorandum of Understanding concerning Land Acquisition for the Afghan portion of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project” took place in the city of Kabul.    The Memorandum was signed by the Acting Minister of Rural Rehabilitation and Development of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan M.Karzai on behalf of the Afghan side and by the representative of the State Concern “Turkmengas” in the Board of Directors of the «TAPI...

On August 31, 2020, a founding online meeting of the International Association Turkmen Alabay dogs was held in Ashgabat, in which leading experts and dog handlers from more than 10 countries also took part. In total, the meeting was attended by about 200 delegates. As is known, on May 1, 2020, in order to implement the initiative of the President of Turkmenistan, the Association Turkmen Alabay dogs was established. According to the agenda, at the beginning of the meeting, the participants...

On August 28, 2020, a telephone conversation was held between the President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and the President of the Republic of Korea Moon Jae-in. After warmly greeting each other, the leaders of two friendly countries expressed satisfaction for the opportunity to exchange views on priority issues of interstate cooperation. In the framework of constructive conversation, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov expressed sincere gratitude to the Leader of the Republic...

On August 25, 2020, an online meeting was held between the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov and the Minister of Roads and Urban Development of the Islamic Republic of Iran Mohammad Eslami. During the meeting, the Ministers noted with satisfaction the high level of active dialogue between Turkmenistan and Iran, as well as the adherence of the heads of states to further development of cooperation on various vectors.   The parties discussed a number of current issues...

On August 20, 2020 the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry of Turkmenistan with support from the Regional and Country Offices of the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) hosted a web conference on child and adolescent health during the time of COVID-19. The conference was attended by healthcare professionals of Central Asian countries as well as of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Germany, Russian Federation and UK aimed at sharing experiences and discussing the...