EU Special Representative for Central Asia Peter Burian paid a working visit to Ashgabat. On Wednesday, he held talks with members of the Turkmen government - Deputy Prime Minister, Chairman of the Supreme Control Chamber Serdar Berdimuhamedov and Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov.

An expanded meeting of the Board of the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Turkmenistan was held in Ashgabat, at which new prospects for the development of the private sector of the economy were considered in connection with the decree of President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov on state financial support for entrepreneurship.

The Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Turkmenistan hosted an event with the participation of representatives of the General Directorate of Civil Defence and Rescue Operations of the Ministry of Defense on compliance with fire safety rules during hot weather.

On Tuesday, President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov met with the new head of the OSCE Center in Ashgabat, John McGregor, the official Turkmen press reported today.

President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov was awarded the gold medal of honor of the Mir Interstate TV and Radio Company for fruitful cooperation in the information sphere and support of the activities of the media holding covering the economic and cultural life in the Commonwealth countries.

On May 30, in Ashgabat, the maximum temperature reached +45.6 degrees. This is the highest temperature in May ever recorded in 130 years of meteorological observations in the city, according to Meteo journal website.

Speaker of the lower chamber of the parliament of Turkmenistan Gulshat Mammedova is taking part in the second conference of the ECO Parliamentary Assembly, which opened on June 1, in Islamabad.

Turkmenistan and Israel considered the current cooperation and prospects of collaboration between their countries in political-diplomatic, trade-economic and cultural-humanitarian spheres.

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan Abdulaziz Kamilov who is on a working visit to Ashkhabad at the head of delegation of his country, has been received today by President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov.

The visit of the president of Kazakhstan planned for the second half of the year 2021 to Turkmenistan became one of topics of telephone conversation between Deputy Chairman, Minister of Foreign Affairs Rashid Meredov and his Kazakh colleague Mukhtar Tileuberdi on Tuesday.