On Tuesday, President Serdar Berdimuhamedov received Chairperson of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Margareta Söderfelt, who arrived in Ashgabat to participate in the international forum "The Role of Neutral States in Strengthening Security, Stability and Dialogue in the OSCE Region."
"We are taking a responsible and systematic approach to the development of cooperation with UNESCO," President Serdar Berdimuhamedov said during a meeting on Monday with the head of the UNESCO Cluster Office in Tehran, UNESCO representative in Turkmenistan and Iran Golda El-Khoury. The guest also noted the desire of the UN educational, Scientific and Cultural Institution to develop cooperation with Turkmenistan.
Chairman of the Halk Maslahaty of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon had a telephone conversation.
The current President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, won 49.35% of the votes in the first round of the presidential election based on the results of counting 100% of ballots inside the country. In second place is a single opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu with 45% of the vote. In third place is the candidate from the ATA Alliance, Sinan Ogan, with 5.22% of the votes.
Special Representative of the President of the People's Republic of China, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of China Ma Zhaoxu conveyed to the President of Turkmenistan an invitation on behalf of Xi Jinping to participate in the upcoming May 18-19 summit "Central Asia + China". The meeting of the head of Turkmenistan with the Chinese diplomat took place on Saturday, May 13.
Ashgabat will host the international forum "The Role of Neutral States in strengthening security, stability and dialogue within the OSCE" on May 16. The event is held jointly with the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. This was informed at a meeting of the Turkmen government on Friday by the chairman of the Mejlis Dunyagozel Gulmanova.
The first meeting of the Interpol Geiger project working group for Central Asia was held in Tashkent with the participation of Turkmenistan, where representatives of the law enforcement services of the countries of the Central Asian region took part.
On Saturday, May 13, the first passenger route between Xi'an, the administrative center of Shaanxi Province in northwest China, and Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan, was officially opened.
President Serdar Berdimuhamedov appointed Maksat Babayev as State Minister and Chairman of the State Concern "Turkmengas", who until that moment had held the position of Deputy Head of the department.
President Serdar Berdimuhamedov dismissed Ashirguly Begliev from the post of Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers for Oil and Gas in connection with the transfer to another job.
Early voting in the presidential elections of Uzbekistan scheduled for July 9 will take place from June 28 to July 5, reports TASS with reference to the press service of the Central Election Commission of Uzbekistan.
The meeting of the Ambassador of Turkmenistan to the Russian Federation Batyr Niyazliev with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergei Lavrov took place in Moscow, during which the newly appointed Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Turkmenistan Ivan Volynkin was introduced to the Turkmen side.
President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov met with Prime Minister of Tajikistan Kohir Rasulzoda on Thursday during his visit to Dushanbe. The subject of negotiations was the Turkmen-Tajik agreements reached at the highest level the day before in a number of areas, among which transport cooperation was highlighted.
The prospects for cooperation between Turkmenistan and USAID to promote regional and national projects were discussed on Thursday by the Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Vepa Khadzhiev and Deputy Assistant Administrator of the Asian Bureau of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Anjali Kaur. He arrived in Ashgabat on a working visit, according to the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan.
President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov signed a decree approving the composition of the Turkmen-Kazakh intergovernmental commission from the Turkmen side, TDH reports.
