An informal meeting of the leaders of the member countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States took place at the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library in St. Petersburg.
In the CIS, it is planned to simplify the procedure for exchanging information and documents necessary for performing notarial actions within the framework of requests for legal assistance.
Representatives of the State Customs Service of Turkmenistan took part in the third session of the Technical Body for the Implementation of the Customs Convention on the International Carriage of Goods using TIR Carnets.
Uzbekistan supplied Kyrgyzstan with electricity generated with the help of Turkmen gas to prevent the Toktogul reservoir from running out – a critical lowering of the water level, follows from a joint statement by the Ministry of Energy of the two republics.
President Serdar Berdimuhamedov instructed to prepare for a solemn military parade on the occasion of the opening of the city of Arkadag in the Ahal region, TDH reports following the results of an expanded meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers.
On Thursday, Presidents of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed an agreement on allied relations and an agreement on the demarcation of the Uzbek-Kazakh state border. In addition, 15 documents were signed at the level of governments, ministries and departments, large companies of the two countries. Among them is a framework intergovernmental agreement on the establishment of the International Center for Industrial Cooperation "Central Asia".
President Serdar Berdimuhamedov visited the new administrative center of the Akhal region, where he held an extended meeting of the government on Wednesday, and before that he got acquainted with the progress of work on the grandiose new building. Design projects of architectural and other structures of the new city were presented to the attention of the head of state.
The city of Arkadag is the name of the new administrative center of the Akhal region, where an extended government meeting was held on Wednesday. This decision was announced by Chairman of the Mejlis - the Chamber of Deputies of the Turkmen Parliament Gulshat Mammedova.
Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov, during a working visit to Tokyo at the head of the Turkmen delegation from December 21 to 24, held a number of bilateral meetings on Wednesday.
Turkmenistan has developed a roadmap for the introduction of a risk analysis system on border security issues into the institutional regulatory framework, according to the website of the State Customs Service of Turkmenistan.
The first Central Asian Media Forum is being held on December 20-21 in Astana, Kazinform reports. The purpose of the event is to promote the creation of a unified media space in Central Asia.
A series of training sessions on the basics of social work for newly hired social workers and specialists of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Population of Turkmenistan has started in Ashgabat, the ORIENT correspondent reports.
The development of water diplomacy and the use of its tools were among the main issues at the seminar held by UNDP together with national partners in Ashgabat, according to a press release from the organization's representative office in Turkmenistan.
The Federal Government of Russia, together with the Government of the Republic of Dagestan, have begun to develop a concept for the development of a special economic zone and the creation of a "Caspian coastal cluster".
The tenth anniversary summit of the Organization of Turkic States (OTG) will be held in Kazakhstan in 2023, the press service of the country's president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev reports.
