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The newly opened premium airline BeOnd will offer passengers Apple Vision Pro headsets during the flight. This is reported on the airline's website.


The newly opened premium airline BeOnd will offer passengers Apple Vision Pro headsets during the flight. This is reported on the airline's website.


Association "Turkmen Logistics" together with the International Coordinating Council for Trans-Eurasian Transportation (ICCTET) organized a webinar "New vectors of development of Eurasian multimodal transportation".


Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov and Special Representative of the UN Secretary General, Head of the Regional Center for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia Kaha Imnadze discussed the organization of joint events in 2024.


Turkmenistan's Ambassador to the Republic of Kazakhstan Batyr Rejepov met on Friday with Vice Minister of Culture and Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan Yerbol Alikulov.


On Friday, February 16, King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, received the first regular direct flight of Turkmenistan Airlines from Ashgabat. There were 279 passengers on board the plane.


On Friday, February 16, during trading on the State Commodity Exchange of Turkmenistan, petrochemical products and Turkmen carpets were in great demand on the domestic and foreign markets.


Currently, Russia is one of the five main trading partners of Turkmenistan. The volume of mutual trade turnover in 2022 exceeded 1.6 billion US dollars. “In connection with the full discharge of contractual obligations for the supply of Turkmen natural gas to Russia, we expect an improvement in the results of foreign economic activity in 2023,” Russian Ambassador to Turkmenistan Ivan Volynkin said at a briefing for representatives of Russian media accredited in Turkmenistan.


The Air Transport Agency - "Türkmenhowaýollary" - continues to hold the lead among the sectors of the transport and communications complex in increasing the volume of services provided for a number of months. Civil aviation is making up for lost time during the pandemic and is actively expanding its flight geography, demonstrating a trajectory of soaring performance after forced downtime. The other day, the first flight of Turkmen Airlines on the regular Ashgabat-Kuala Lumpur route was solemnly welcomed in the capital of Malaysia.


At a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers on Friday, President Serdar Berdimuhamedov, after hearing the report of Deputy Prime Minister for Agriculture Tangryguly Atahalliyev on the results of the work of the supervised departments in January, again raised the topic of the importance of rational use of water in agriculture. In this context, the head of state pointed out to the Deputy Prime Minister the tasks of modernizing water supply systems.


Turkmen oil and gas condensate producers fulfilled the production plan for January with a slight excess - by 100.3%. In particular, the state concern "Turkmenneft" - 100.1%. The processing industries of the fuel and energy complex fulfilled the plan by 101.9 percent. Deputy Prime Minister Batyr Amanov reported this at a meeting of the government of Turkmenistan on Friday.


Turkmenistan's GDP growth in January 2024 remained at the level of 6.3%. During this time, 8.2% more products were produced in the country than in January last year, and trade turnover increased by 10.6%. Such macroeconomic data were presented by Deputy Prime Minister Hojamyrat Geldimyradov at a meeting of the Turkmen government on Friday, January 16, following the results of the first month of the year.


Incoterms 2010, short for International Commercial Terms, are a set of standardized trade terms used in international commercial transactions. They were created by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) to avoid misunderstandings between buyers and sellers in different countries and to establish a common set of rules for the international sale of goods. These terms are widely used in international trade and are essential for determining the responsibilities and risks of both the buyer and the seller.


A meeting with the head of the France-Turkmenistan Chamber of Commerce, Marie-Helene Berard, was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan on Friday. Deputy Foreign Minister Mahri Bashimova noted the positive dynamics of the development of trade and economic relations between the two countries. At the same time, the potential for building up Turkmenistan's business partnership with French companies in the field of energy, oil and gas complex, transport and healthcare was emphasized.


February 16, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan – The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) held its fourth annual Civic Forum bringing together representatives of the Mejlis, the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Population, the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry, the Ministry of Education, the Turkmencommunications agency and 15 civil society organizations. The forum foused on the concept the implementation and of the State Program on Digital Economy Development for 2019-2025 through the application of innovative digital solutions.


On Thursday, February 15, China's chief legislator Zhao Leji called on the member states of the Friends of Neutrality Group to jointly promote the development of the global governance system in a more fair and equitable direction,