On Tuesday, June 6, 14 deals totaling $14.7 million were made at the auctions of the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan, ORIENT correspondent reports.
Young Turkmen champions played the first games at the World Chess Championship in Batumi (Georgia). Twelve of the best chess players of Turkmenistan (6 girls and 6 boys) participate in the age categories from 8 to 18 years. The tournament is held with the rapid time control regulations, i.e. each player is given 15 minutes with 10 seconds for each turn.
Turkmen Ambassador to Pakistan Atajan Movlamov met on Tuesday with Pakistani Minister of State for Oil Musadik Masud Malik.
— The International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea is the only regional organization capable of uniting the efforts of countries to overcome the negative consequences of the drying up of the Aral Sea and improve the environmental, socio-economic situation in the Aral Sea region, - said Deputy Prime Minister of Turkmenistan Annageldy Yazmuradov, speaking at the conference "Central Asia: towards a sustainable future through a strong regional institution" on Tuesday.
The expedition "Martian landscapes", organized by the editorial office of the magazine "National Geographic Qazaqstan" with the support of the Akimat of Aktau, will prepare photographic materials to cover the development of tourism in Mangystau region. The pictures will "tell" about the special nature and unique landscape of the region, the publication "Kazakhstanskaya Pravda" reports.
The meeting of the co-chairs of the Intergovernmental Turkmen-Georgian Commission for Economic Cooperation took place on Monday in Tbilisi. The parties noted the high level of bilateral relations and determined the guidelines for the further development of multifaceted cooperation between the two countries, according to the website of the Turkmen Foreign Ministry.
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has approved a draft agreement on free trade in services in the CIS, BelTA informs citing the press service of the Belarusian leader.
The airline "Turkmenistan" has resumed flights between Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan. As Orient was told in the Main Air Communications Agency, flights from Ashgabat to Almaty are carried out once a week - on Fridays on Boeing-737 aircraft.
The II Games of the CIS countries have opened in Belarus in a test mode, Belteleradiocompany reports. An operational coordination center has also been launched.
Representatives of the national mass media of the member States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization visited China on a study tour.
Representatives of the "Safe Migration in Central Asia" (SMICA) program in Turkmenistan, funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in cooperation with the UN Regional Center for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA), the UN Counter-Terrorism Office (UN CTU), the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) organized the ceremony Transfer of UNODC training materials to the Ministry of Education of Turkmenistan.
Turkmenistan's private textile companies are increasing exports through the country's State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange, concluding more and more deals with buyers from the UK, China, the UAE, Turkey, Kyrgyzstan and Azerbaijan.
Since June 11, the automobile enterprise Awtomobil ulag hyzmaty OJSC will launch a bus route in the direction of Ashgabat – Avaza – Ashgabat, the website of the "Turkmenawtoulaglary" Agency reports.
On June 6, the first meeting of the new Cabinet of Ministers of Turkey will be held in Ankara under the chairmanship of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Anadolu agency reports.
Kazakhstan is ready to provide the necessary infrastructure for gas transit from Russia to Uzbekistan. The Minister of Energy of the Republic Almasadam Satkaliyev said this at a meeting on the state of the gas industry in the Kazakh parliament.
