US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken convened on Friday, July 7, an online ministerial conference on the creation of a global coalition to combat synthetic drugs. The event was attended by about 60 countries and international organizations.
Turkmenistan will join a number of UNESCO institutes and networks. In order to expand cooperation with the UN agency for education, science and culture, it is planned to intensify the country's participation in its international programs and the work of specialized departments.
A series of national seminars for trainers on travel document security, organized by the OSCE Center in Ashgabat, concluded on Friday in the seaside town of Turkmenbashi. The experts completed basic and advanced training programs and received a set of materials for further training of field staff.
The grain growers of the Balkan region fulfilled their contractual obligations to harvest wheat. This was announced at a meeting of the Turkmen government on Friday by the ex-governor of littoral region Tangryguly Atahallyyev, who was appointed Deputy Prime Minister for agriculture during the meeting. He replaced Annageldy Yazmyradov in this post, who resigned due to his health condition.
The film media cluster of the future will be located in the east of Moscow. On Friday, the mayor of the city, Sergei Sobyanin, inspected the progress of work on creating a competitive full-cycle cinema platform similar to Hollywood and Bollywood, TASS reports.
The city of Arkadag received its own phone code – +993 12 or 8 00 12. It is identical to the code of the city of Ashgabat.
On July 16, Turkmenistan Airline starts cargo transportation in two new directions - Milan (Italy) and Shenzhen (People's Republic of China). Flights will be operated once a week by an Airbus A330-200 P2F cargo plane, the press service of the Turkmenhovaellary agency reports.
Turkmenistan's Ambassador to the United States Meret Orazov took part in discussions in the CA+1 format with his colleagues from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. US Assistant Secretary of State Donald Lu also joined the discussions on interregional cooperation.
British Minister for Europe and Central Asia Leo Docherty visited the Memorial Complex "People's Memory" in Ashgabat, where he paid tribute to the victims of the Ashgabat earthquake of 1948, soldiers who died in the Great Patriotic War and the heroes of the Battle of Geokdepe.
Turkmenistan will hold about 100 joint actions, meetings, conferences, studies and other events together with the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States in 2024, the Year of the Volunteer Movement in the CIS countries.
9 kindergartens with 320 seats, 5 secondary schools with 720 seats, 72 five-, 24 seven- and 14 nine-story houses will appear as part of the construction of the second stage of the city of special state significance Arkadag. The relevant tender was published today in the official Turkmen press.
Japan Airlines has launched an experimental clothing rental service for passengers and tourists who fly without luggage. Now travelers can not take suitcases with them, but limit themselves only to personal hygiene items. Such a move will contribute to the promotion of eco-friendly tourism, the carrier said in a statement issued on Wednesday.
In Paris, a ban on the construction of houses above 12 floors — that is, about 37 meters - came into force. The French capital has been fighting for the right to remain a low-rise city for a long time and has adopted a new "Local Urbanization Plan" (LUP), which is designed to promote more environmentally friendly construction, euronews writes.
Ancient Turkic manuscripts are currently stored in the libraries of Uppsala and Lund Universities in Sweden. Unique book editions were collected by Swedish missionaries in the 19th and 20th centuries. A total of 858 Turkic artifacts are currently in library vaults, and more than 500 books have duplicates and all of them will be returned to Uzbekistan, reports upl.uz .
Scientists Meretmuhammet Hudayberdiyev and Nasiba Charykulyyeva of the Technology Center of the Academy of Sciences of Turkmenistan have developed an innovative drip irrigation system injector that simultaneously saves water, suspends the development of fungi, and creates conditions for the development of the necessary microbes for plant nutrition.
