Today, May 17, 2023, a delegation headed by the Director General of the Transport and Communications Agency under the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan Mammetkhan Chakiev arrived in Kazan to participate in the XIV Kazan International Economic Forum "Russia - the Islamic World: Kazan Forum 2023". The purpose of the Forum is to strengthen trade, economic, scientific, technical, social and cultural ties between Russia and the countries of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. The forum pro...

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...

On May 16, 2023, negotiations were held between the Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan V.Hajiyev and the delegation of the German company Goetzpartners. During the meeting, the parties discussed a wide range of topical issues of bilateral trade and economic partnership. An exchange of views also took place in the context of the implementation of promising projects in the economy and investment cooperation.

On May 15, 2023, President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov received the director of the UNESCO Cluster Office in Tehran Golda El-Khoury. Noting the high interest of UNESCO in further deepening the constructive dialogue with Turkmenistan, Golda El-Khoury stressed that last year the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, at the initiative of the Turkmen state, was supplemented with such types of intangible heritage as “Turkmen art of embroidery”, “Seri...