The President of Turkmenistan approved the Programme of social and economic development of the country in 2019 – 2025 at the extended session of the Government on February 1. It was mentioned in this regard, that the model of the development of national economy in next seven years proposed by the Government includes number of strategic directions. First, structural reformation of industrial sectors and service sphere is planned. Paying special attention to support of high technology productio...

Total volume growth of trade turnover for the period under review by the Ministry of Trade and Foreign Economic Relations was 10.1 percent. The State Commodity and Raw Material Exchange held 249 trade session and made 26,374 contracts for this period. Total volume of income increased by 23.4 percent. Service growth rate by the Trade and Industrial Chamber was 48.7 percent, profit growth rate – 54.2 percent and growth of total income was 107.3 percent. 24 exhibitions and 26 conferences were...

Meetings on the key directions of activity in near future were held in Türkmendeňizderýaýollary» and «Türkmensenagat» agencies of the Ministry of Industry and Communication. At recent session with the members of the Cabinet of Ministers, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov outlined number of current objectives, which are to provide stable development of the country, to keep and improve stable growth of national economy and to consolidate the efficiency of work, Important decisions aimed at th...

On January 31, 2019, a meeting was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan with a delegation that arrived in Ashgabat on a working visit headed by the European Union Special Representative for Central Asia Peter Burian. During the meeting, the sides discussed a number of issues related to the development of cooperation between the EU and Turkmenistan in 2019. In this context, in order to strengthen cooperation, the issue of opening a representation of the European Union in Tur...

On the 30th of January 2019, a meeting was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan with the delegation headed by Mr. Bruno Balvanera, Managing Director, Central Asia, of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development who came to Ashgabat on a working visit. In the beginning of the meeting, gratitude was expressed to the EBRD delegation for active participation of the Bank’s representatives in different international forums organized in our country as well as for construc...

On January 29, 2019, the ceremony of presenting the letters of credence of the Ambassador of Turkmenistan to Romania A.Annaev to the President of Romania Mr. Klaus Verner Johannis was held in the Cotroceni Palace in Bucharest. The event was also attended by the Advisor to the President of Romania on political issues Mr. Bogdan Aurescu, the State Secretary of the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Mr. Danuz Sebastian Neculaescu, and the diplomats of the Embassy. During the talks with the...

On the 29th of January 2019, an exhibition of Turkmen cultural and historical heritage, applied art, informational photos on the achievements of the country and the books of the President of Turkmenistan was organized in the headquarters of the Commonwealth of Independent States dedicated to Turkmenistan’s chairmanship in the CIS in 2019.  The exhibition was organized by the Embassy of Turkmenistan in the Republic of Belarus.  At the festive opening ceremony, Chairman of the Executive Committ...