The UN General Assembly has proclaimed July 12 as International Sand and Dust Storm Day, emphasizing the need for global and regional cooperation to combat and mitigate these phenomena.
Four children were found alive on Friday in the jungles of Colombia after they went missing in a small plane crash 40 days ago. This was announced on Saturday, June 10, by Colombian President Gustavo Petro on his Twitter.
Reliable efficient operation of the transport complex of Turkmenistan ensures the territorial and socio-economic development of the country, the functioning of the domestic market and foreign trade relations, the promotion of international communications and the enhancement of regional connectivity. The growing needs of the economy in transport services are reflected by the positive dynamics of the reporting indicators of the sectors of the transport and communication block.
The national team of Turkmenistan will take part in the world championship in billiard sports, which will be held from June 12-17 in Surgut. This was reported to an ORIENT correspondent by the State Committee for Physical Culture and Sports of the country.
Turkmenistan will purchase passenger aircraft of the American Boeing Corporation to expand its civil aviation fleet on behalf of the head of state.
The Cuban government is eyeing Turkmenistan's opportunities to forge closer economic ties. This topic was the subject of a meeting between Prime Minister of Cuba, Manuel Marrero Cruz, along with Minister of Health of this country, Jose Angel Portal Miranda, on Thursday with a delegation of Turkmenistan headed by Deputy Prime Minister for the financial and economic bloc Hojamurad Geldymuradov.
The Turkmen-Korean international scientific and creative conference "Magtymguly Pyragy and world values", dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the birth of the classic poet Magtymguly Pyragy, was organized on Friday by the Embassy of Turkmenistan in the Republic of Korea.
Lego has joined forces with Czech-Slovak space experts to send a thousand mini- figures on a journey to the "edge of space" aboard stratostats.
Strengthening cooperation in the field of information technologies in the field of education was discussed on Friday during a meeting between Maksat Charyev, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Turkmenistan to UNESCO and Tao Zhan, Director of the UNESCO Institute of Information Technologies in Education.
The first unmanned electric ferry set sail in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. Thus, the city became the first in the world to use such technology.
Ak-kalpak, the Kok-boru game and the World Nomad Games – three more objects of cultural heritage of Kyrgyzstan have joined the UNESCO list. The certificate awarding ceremony took place on Friday at the Historical Museum in Bishkek. The general director of the organization Audre Azule arrived in the Kyrgyz capital to participate in the celebrations, Kabar reports.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Regional Center for Capacity Development for the Caucasus, Central Asia and Mongolia opened on June 9 in Almaty. The Kazakhstan Bureau has become the 17th of such centers in the world and will coordinate the work of the IMF in nine countries at once: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, reports Tengrinews.kz.
Representatives of the State Customs Service of Turkmenistan held a meeting with the head of the German project "Trade Facilitation in Central Asia" Fesilitas Zik, during which steps to simplify trade procedures were discussed.
President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev stated the need for a comprehensive reform of the UN Security Council, without which it is impossible to solve the primary tasks of eliminating global problems. This follows from the speech of the head of state at the Astana International Forum, reports akorda.kz.
On June 11, a festive concert dedicated to the Day of Russia will be held at the Moscow Musical and Drama Theater named after Magtymguly. Yulia Zaitseva, First Secretary of the Russian Embassy in Turkmenistan, representative of Rossotrudnichestvo, told the ORIENT correspondent about this.
