The new Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Turkmenistan, Ivan Volynkin, handed over copies of his credentials to Acting Foreign Minister Vepa Hajiyev on Wednesday.
On May 16, the UN General Assembly held a debate on agenda item 61 "Zone of Peace, Trust and Cooperation of Central Asia", which was initiated by Turkmenistan. This is reported on the website of the Permanent Mission of Turkmenistan to the UN.
Skyscrapers of the Chinese city of Xi'an lit up with bright illumination depicting hieroglyphs welcoming guests of the first face—to-face summit "Central Asia - China", CGTN reports.
Turkmen experts took part in the international symposium "The Non-Aligned Movement in a changing and complex global context", held in Baku on May 16. The forum was organized jointly with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan, the Center for Analysis of International Relations and LINKS Europe and brought together representatives of dozens of NAM countries.
The Central Asian countries and China will establish a joint Business Council. This was stated by the representative of the Chinese Council for the Promotion of International Trade Yang Xiaojun, Xinhua News Agency reports.
President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev celebrates his birthday on May 17. He turned 70 years old.
An international forum on the topic "The role of neutral states in strengthening security, stability and dialogue in the OSCE region" was held in Ashgabat on Tuesday. The event was organized by the Mejlis of Turkmenistan and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE PA) within the framework of the "Call to Action - Helsinki +50" initiative.
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.
