Registration of candidates and their meeting with electorate are actively continued in some districts under the work for preparation to organized elections of the Mejlis deputies and members of the People’s Councils of velayats, etraps, cities and Gengeshys planned on March 31, 2019. At present, the registered candidates receive the identification cards at relevant polling stations. It is mentioned that the candidates to the posts of national representatives in legislative body and local powe...

50 transactions have been registered at the trades of the State Commodity and Raw Material Exchange of Turkmenistan last week. For foreign currency, the brokers from United Kingdom, Germany, United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Afghanistan have bought liquefied gas, gasoline, petroleum coke produced by Turkmenbashy Refinery complex. Businessmen from Turkey, Afghanistan and other countries have also procured gasoline and heavy fuel oil produced by Seydi Refinery. High density polyethylene was the sub...

On February 22, 2019, the 7th meeting of the Intergovernmental Turkmen-Korean Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific and Technological Cooperation was held in Seoul. During the meeting the parties reviewed the state and prospects of bilateral relations between Turkmenistan and the Republic of Korea. The parties also exchanged views and identified concrete steps for developing cooperation in a wide range of areas. On the same day, the Turkmen-Korean business forum was held, in which more...

President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov held regular session of the Cabinet of Ministers in format of video conference where the subjects of the sate life have been discussed and number of documents has been adopted. Prior starting the discussion of the points of agenda, Turkmen leader addressed the participants of the session and noted that at present time, digital economy is considered as the basis for further development in the world. The Head of the State said that aspects of social and ec...

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Turkmenistan to the People’s Republic of China Parahat Durdyev has presented his letters of credence to President of the Peoples’ Republic of China Xi Jinping. In the course of the meeting, the Ambassador passed on greetings and best wishes to the Chinese leader from President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and assured that he would make the best use of his knowledge and experience to diversify multifaceted cooperation between the two countries. In h...

On February 21, 2019, within the framework of his official visit,  the President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Mohammad Ashraf Ghani visited the Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan. At the institute, the distinguished guest delivered a lecture to professors, teachers and students of the Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan and the International University for the Humanities and Deve...

On February 19-21, 2019, during the working visit, the delegation of Turkmenistan was given the opportunity to familiarize with the activities and structure of the “Torrevieja” desalination plant in Alicante. During the visit, the delegation held meetings at the Ministry of Ecological Transition of Spain, in particular, a meeting was held with the State Secretary of the Ministry and heads of the departments. Further, presentations took place during which the “Toray”, “Torishima”,  “Arflu”,...