The forthcoming joint projects and events were discussed by Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov and Director of the UNESCO Cluster Office in Tehran, UNESCO representative in Turkmenistan and Iran Golda El Khoury, who is visiting Ashgabat. In particular, they paid attention to the issues of holding an international forum in the Turkmen capital next year dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the country's accession to UNESCO.

Paul McCartney announced the "last" Beatles song created with the help of artificial intelligence (AI). This technology was used to extract from an old demo recording the voice of John Lennon, who died in 1980, to create what Sir Paul calls "the last Beatles album". "We've just finished it, and it's coming out this year," the octogenarian McCartney told the BBC.

The National Folklore Ensemble of Romania "Transylvania" will perform for the first time in Avaza and Ashgabat, the Romanian Embassy in Turkmenistan told ORIENT.

Representatives of travel agencies of Turkmenistan signed a document on the establishment of the Xinjiang Alliance for Cooperation in Tourism in Central Asia, which will explore the resources of members and their experience in managing the industry, CCTV reports.

The popular American artist Aimee Erickson has arrived in Ashgabat and is already giving the first master classes and lectures for students of the State Academy of Arts of Turkmenistan. Information about this is transmitted by the American diplomatic mission in the country.

The archive of the Office of the Emir of Bukhara is included in the list of the UNESCO "Memory of the World" program. A collection of documents in several languages - Arabic, Persian, Russian and Turkish reveal the socio-economic life and political structure of the then Bukhara, islamnews reports with reference to the information service of the “Uzarkhiv” agency.

Every year, the chairmen of the State Examination Commission - professors, composers and teachers of the Maya Kuliyeva Turkmen National Conservatory - come to the state examinations at specialized art schools. This year, and not for the first time, Honored Artist of Turkmenistan, composer and scientist Suhan Tuiliev is visiting the Balkan region. On the third day of his arrival, as part of the state examinations in the regional library of the city of Balkanabat, a creative meeting with the composer was held, organized by the directorate of the local specialized school of arts.

The Turkmen-Korean international scientific and creative conference "Magtymguly Pyragy and world values", dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the birth of the classic poet Magtymguly Pyragy, was organized on Friday by the Embassy of Turkmenistan in the Republic of Korea.

Ak-kalpak, the Kok-boru game and the World Nomad Games – three more objects of cultural heritage of Kyrgyzstan have joined the UNESCO list. The certificate awarding ceremony took place on Friday at the Historical Museum in Bishkek. The general director of the organization Audre Azule arrived in the Kyrgyz capital to participate in the celebrations, Kabar reports.

On June 11, a festive concert dedicated to the Day of Russia will be held at the Moscow Musical and Drama Theater named after Magtymguly. Yulia Zaitseva, First Secretary of the Russian Embassy in Turkmenistan, representative of Rossotrudnichestvo, told the ORIENT correspondent about this.