On  February 13, 2018, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov has received President of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of the Republic of Turkey Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu. Appreciative to the head of state of the audience, the guest highlighted that Turkish partners are proud of constructive cooperation with our country and a number of successfully completed and ongoing joint projects. The head of state stressed that Turkmenistan with its consistent policy of peace and broad interna...

On February 13, 2018, the national boxing championship will start in Ashgabat. As organizers of competitions the Federation of Boxing of Turkmenistan, the Ministry of Sports and the Youth Policy and also the Ministry of Trade and Foreign Economic Relations act. The tournament which promises a lot of entertainment and fascinating moments will pass in the Olympic village of Ashgabat for four days. For participation in the championship about hundreds of sportsmen in ten weight categories among m...

On  February 12, 2018, Agricultural Complex of the capital held the conference where the matters of further development of water sphere of the country have been discussed. Hyakims of the velayats, deputies of the Mejlis, heads and leading specialists of agricultural complex, number of ministries and departments, State Commercial Bank Dayhanbank as well as representatives of the Academy of Sciences, personnel of water management, professors and lecturers of profile universities, personnel of scie...

In the Program of Social and Economic Development of Turkmenistan for 2018-2024, special attention is paid to the creation of new capacities for the production of export-oriented and import-substituting products, which will be produced from local natural and including chemical resources. Iodine and bromine play an important role in this, rich reservoirs of which contain "Gujular" and "Boyadag" deposits in the Balkan region. Industrial development of these raw materials makes possible the prod...

Past week at the auctions of the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan 20 transactions were registered. For the foreign currency businessmen from Afghanistan bought diesel fuel manufactured by Turkmenbashi oil refineries complex. Besides it, for the foreign currency cotton yarn and cotton fibre was realised. The countries-buyers: Russia, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Pakistan. The total sum of transactions made up over 50 million 585 thousand US dollars. For the ma...

Turkmenistan, paying great attention to strategic partnership with the UN and its specialized agencies, actively develops cooperation with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Such unique historical and cultural monuments of Turkmenistan as Ancient Merv, Kunyaurgench and Old Nisa have been already included to the UNESCO World Heritage List. Turkmen national art of singing and dancing kushtdepdy was included to the Representative List of Non-materia...

On February 11, 2018, President of Turkmenistan, Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, General of the Army Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov visited the temporary military training area of the air defense forces and inspected the technological infrastructure and potential of the air forces. As is known, the President of Turkmenistan regularly inspects the progress of the modernization and reformation of the law enforcement agencies of the country, the current situation in the military and l...