On January 27, 2020, the sixth meeting of authorized representatives of the Caspian littoral states for discussing the draft Protocol on cooperation in the field of Securing Maritime Safety in the Caspian Sea began its work in Ashgabat. The meeting is attended by experts from the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation and Turkmenistan, employees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, the Institute of the Caspian Se...

Turkmen delegation will participate in International conference “Green Central Asia”, which will be held in berlin on January 28 on foreign ministers level of the countries of the region, Afghanistan and Germany. The purpose of the forum is to review improvement of regional cooperation in such current spheres as combating against climate change and its consequences. Relative initiative of the Government of Germany, which provides realization of the projects in such important directions as env...

Preparation to regular meeting on ministers level in C5+1 format between central Asian countries and Untied States of America, which would be held in Tashkent on February 3, is carried out. As is known, this format presents multilateral mechanism of cooperation between five states of the region and USA. Proposals for cooperation in such spheres as strengthening of security and stability, development of trade and economic relations, environment protection and ecology are systematically reviewe...

On January 24, 2020, the presentation of the project of the resolution dedicated to the neutrality of Turkmenistan entitled “The Role and Significance of the Neutrality Policy in Sustaining and Strengthening International Peace, Security and Sustainable Development” took place in the UN headquarters in New York and was organized by the Permanent Representation of Turkmenistan to the UN. The representatives of the UN member-states, as well as the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-Gene...

On January 24, 2020, a briefing dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the permanent neutrality of Turkmenistan and to the announcement of the year 2020 as “Turkmenistan – Home of Neutrality” organized by the Embassy of Turkmenistan in Japan was held in Tokyo. The representatives of the Japanese mass media such as “Asahi shimbun,” “NHK,” “Kyodo news,” “Mainichi,” “Sumitomo global research” and “Japan-Eurasia Society” participated to the briefing. During the event, the Ambassador of Turkmenis...

The Ministry of Energy of Turkmenistan and TAPP-500 Power Transmission Line FZE, a subsidiary enterprise of Çalik Holding A.Ş. (the Turkish Republic) signed the Agreement on cooperation in implementing the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan power transmission line project. This meeting was organized with the aim to develop a legal framework for a mutual partnership on the construction of a 220 kW power line. The issues related to the laying of a transnational energy highway directly through ou...

On January 23, 2020, the ninth meeting of the Turkmen-German Joint Working Group took place in Ashgabat. The Turkmen delegation was headed by the Minister of Trade and Foreign Economic Relations of Turkmenistan, while the German delegation was led by the Deputy Head of the External Policy Department of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy of Germany. During the negotiations, the issues of bilateral cooperation pertaining to various sectors of economy were discussed. The par...