On April 4th, the solemn award ceremony of the AICA Awards 2025, the first Central Asian award in the field of artificial intelligence, took place in Tashkent. The award ceremony, named in honor of the great mathematician al-Khwarizmi, was organized by the Central Asian Artificial Intelligence Association (AICA). It brought together leading representatives of the AI industry, promising startups, and investors from across the region.

Tianjin will host the first parallel event of the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit from April 9th to 11th, 2025. This event, organized within the framework of the Global Development Initiative, will be dedicated to promoting investment in sustainable development.

Experts from the World Customs Organization (WCO), Dashgyn Aliyev and Zhaidar Inkerbayev, visited the Training Center under the State Customs Service of Turkmenistan with the aim of providing technical assistance in the preparation of a strategic plan for the Regional Training Center in Turkmenistan.

The Prime Minister of Japan, Mr. Shigeru Ishiba, has affirmed that preparations for the World Expo 2025 in Osaka Prefecture are fully underway.

The diplomatic missions of Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Türkiye, and Azerbaijan in the United States celebrated the Nowruz holiday.

The Turkmen delegation, headed by the Chairperson of the Mejlis, paid a working visit to Tashkent to participate in the 150th anniversary Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, which commenced on April 5th in the Uzbek capital.

During a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan chaired by President Serdar Berdimuhamedov on Saturday, April 5th, Vice-Premier Nokerguly Atagulyyev presented a report on the outcomes of the activities of the supervised ministries, sectoral departments, and the business sector for the first quarter of 2025

On Friday, the three-day trial run of the World Exhibition Expo 2025, scheduled to open in Japan on April 13th, was initiated.

The Ambassador of Japan to Turkmenistan, Mr. Hiroshi Sasaki, undertook a visit to the Balkan velayat.

Addressing the international forum "Central Asia in the Face of Global Climate Challenges: Consolidation for Common Prosperity" the President of Turkmenistan, Serdar Berdimuhamedov, emphasized the traditionally significant role of the climate agenda within the "Central Asia – European Union" format