Turkmenistan intends to join the International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC), which will thus acquire an additional route option by including the port of Turkmenbashi on the Caspian Sea.
On Saturday, August 27, two internal transactions totaling 906 thousand Turkmen manats were made at the auction of the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan, ORIENT correspondent reports.
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.
On Friday, August 26, deals totaling over 1 million Turkmen manats were made at the auctions of the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan, ORIENT correspondent reports.
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.
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on awarding the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" IV degree, to the former president of Turkmenistan, and now the speaker of the Upper House of the Turkmen Parliament, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, Interfax reports citing the official portal of legal information.
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.
Turkmen-Uzbek political consultations with the participation of Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov and acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan Vladimir Norov were held in Ashgabat on Friday.
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 Turkmen delegation from the transport complex of the country during a business visit to the Astrakhan region visited on Thursday the port special economic zone, which is being formed in the Limansky district, the village of Olya.
On Thursday, August 25, 3 deals totaling 10.6 million Turkmen manats were made at the auctions of the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan, ORIENT correspondent reports.
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.
Turkmenistan has discovered 149 gas and gas condensate fields with reserves of more than 4.97 trillion cubic meters of gas.
On Monday, August 22, 12 deals totaling $5.4 million were made at the auctions of the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan, ORIENT correspondent reports.
By 2025, the extraction of natural gas in the Balkan region, which is key for the oil and gas industry of Turkmenistan, is planned to be increased to 11 billion cubic meters per year.
