Turkmenistan intends to expand existing cooperation with UNESCO, including with its Intergovernmental Committee for Physical Culture and Sports (CIGEPS). Turkmenistan has already been a member of this committee for the period 2017-2021 and is ready to nominate its candidacy for the CIGEPS membership for the period 2023-2027.
Most of us, when we hear the combination of the words "The first of September", immediately imagine tiny first-graders and high school students who have grown up unexpectedly over the summer.
Expanding economic and friendly ties, establishing contacts between business representatives, strengthening partnerships and discussing counter business proposals – with such goals, the participants of the Austrian Economic Mission are preparing for an official visit to Turkmenistan, which is scheduled for late November-early December.
From September 1, the schedule for domestic flights of Turkmenistan Airlines will change, according to the schedule published today on the official website of the air carrier.
The Chairman of the Halk Maslahaty of Turkmenistan is expected to have an official visit to Russia, Speaker of the upper house of the Russian Parliament Valentina Matvienko said during a telephone conversation with her Turkmen counterpart Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov on Monday.
The delegation of the transport complex of Turkmenistan completed a business visit to the Astrakhan region, an agreement on which was reached earlier in Ashgabat during a meeting with Governor of the region Igor Babushkin.
President Serdar Berdimuhamedov appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Turkmenistan to Austria Khemra Amannazarov the country's permanent representative at the UN headquarters in Vienna and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), as well as the head of the delegation of Turkmenistan to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
The ceremony of awarding the state award of Turkmenistan – the "Galkynysh" order ("Rebirth") – to Uzbek diplomats took place on Friday at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, after the completion of the round of Turkmen-Uzbek political consultations.
Turkmenistan Airlines has resumed regular flights between Turkmenistan and Germany, the airline told ORIENT. Flights are operated every Wednesday and Saturday on the Ashgabat – Frankfurt – Turkmenabat route, as confirmed to our correspondent at the point of sale of air tickets in Ashgabat.
The delegation of the transport complex of Turkmenistan held a working meeting on cooperation in the fields of logistics, transport, trade and shipbuilding during a business visit to the Astrakhan region on Wednesday.
New ambassadors of two European countries – Romania and Germany – have started their work in Turkmenistan. On Tuesday, they presented copies of their credentials to Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov.
On Tuesday, President Serdar Berdimuhamedov flew around the new buildings of Ashgabat, also assessing the progress of improvement in a number of districts of the capital, after which the projects of new facilities were presented to the head of state.
Dr. Zalmay Khalilzad, former U.S. Special Envoy for Reconciliation in Afghanistan, and his wife Dr. Cheryl Benard visited Ashgabat.
New Ambassador of Turkmenistan to France, Maksat Charyev, presented copies of his credentials to Philippe Franck, Director of State Protocol and Diplomatic Events at the Elysee Palace of France.
A briefing was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, at which the main results of the Conference of Ministers of Transport of Landlocked Developing Countries, held on August 15-16 in Turkmenbashi, were considered.
