Avaza National tourist zone hosted IX meeting of the Ministers of Transport and Communication of the Economic Cooperation Organization countries. The forum, which agenda included wide range of subjects of development of regional and interregional transport communication and activation of international cooperation in strategic and important sector, gathered more than 70 participants from the ECO countries like Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Turke...

При участии Президента Гурбангулы Бердымухамедова на туркменском берегу Каспия был торжественно введён в строй новый Международный морской порт. Этот масштабный инфраструктурный проект без преувеличения имеет стратегическое значение для всех стран региона Центральной Азии и Каспийского бассейна, поскольку его реализация выводит наши государства на новый виток взаимоотношений, способствуя их активной интеграции в международную систему экономических связей, повышению роли Туркменистана как важн...

A HIGH-LEVEL MEETING ON THE UN GLOBAL COUNTER-TERRORISM STRATEGY IN CENTRAL ASIA WAS HELD IN ASHGABAT On April 30, 2018, in Ashgabat, the High-Level Meeting "Towards a Comprehensive Implementation of the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy in Central Asia" was held, and the third phase of a joint project supporting the Joint Action Plan for Central Asia (SAP) was launched. The event was organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan and the United Nations Regional Center for...

In recent days, distorted information about allegedly illegal activities of Turkmenistan's border services with respect to the Iranian vessel has spread in the media of Iran and other countries. The Turkmen side states that on March 21, 2018, the border services of Turkmenistan suppressed an attempt to smuggle a large consignment of narcotic drugs by a group of citizens of the Islamic Republic of Iran that violated the state border of Turkmenistan on the motorway boat in Turkmenistan's territori...

On February 23, 2018, the construction of the Afghan section of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline had been started in the Serkhetabad district of Mary province, and the laying of power transmission lines and fiber-optic communication lines on the route Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan (TAP) was launched. Together with this, the Serhetabat-Turgundi railway was put into operation. President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, President of the Islamic Republ...

On February 20, 2018 at the UN office in Geneva, Switzerland, within the framework of the 80th session of the UNECE Inland Transport Committee (ITC), the Permanent Mission of Turkmenistan to the United Nations Office organized the side-event entitled “Intermodal Connectivity and the role of historical transport routes: the Great Silk Road”, dedicated to the announcement of 2018 as a year of “Turkmenistan - Heart of the Great Silk Road” and implementation of the General Assembly Resolution A/RES...

On February 19, 2018, the official representatives of Turkmenistan made a statement on the occasion of the adoption of the UNGA resolution “Strengthening the links between all modes of transport in order to achieve the goals of sustainable development” at the regular meeting of the OSCE Committee on Economic and Environmental Affairs. In the statement, it was noted that on December 20, 2017, at the seventy second session of the UN General Assembly in New York, on the initiative of President o...