Iraqi Electricity Minister Ziyad Ali Fadel said during a meeting with members of the parliamentary Committee on Electricity and Energy on Sunday that two delegations will visit Qatar and Turkmenistan to discuss possible gas import deals, the Iraqi News Agency (INA) reported, citing the press service of the Iraqi parliament.
International Short Film Festival of the CIS, Baltic and Georgia starts on July 18 in Bishkek. The Film Forum includes two competitive programs – international and national, in each of which there are genres such as - fiction, documentary, animation and experimental films, Kabar reports.
Turkmenistan's national karate-do team will perform at the 19th Asian Championship, which will be held on July 18-23 in Melaka, Malaysia. The men's team included: Davud Nazmuradov, Maksad Dologeldiyev, Didar Babayev, Bayry Bayryyev, Suleyman Garlyyev, Arzuv Seyitgulyyev. Aygul Esenova, Ogulsuray Tachdurdyyeva and Selbi Rozibayeva will represent Turkmenistan in the women's category.
Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan increased trade turnover by 3.8 times in the first five months of this year compared to the same period last year, Trend reports.
Deputy Prime Minister Baimyrat Annamamedov, who oversees energy, construction and industry in the Turkmen government, who is on a visit to Seoul, met on July 17 with Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea Han Duck-soo, Korean media reported.
Dubai will have the second tallest building in the world. The head of Azizi Developments, Farhad Azizi, announced its construction.
Young professionals from Turkmenistan, along with representatives from Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia, will be able to participate in the John Smith Foundation Scholarship Program. This was reported on the page of the British Embassy in Turkmenistan in Instagram.
Turkmen athletes took the third team place at the world championship in belt wrestling, which was held in Astana (Kazakhstan) from 13 to 16 July. In total, wrestlers from 30 countries took part in the competition.
Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of Kyrgyzstan Akylbek Zhaparov proposed to open Hyundai and Kia automobile plants in the country. The initiative was voiced during a meeting with the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Korea, Chong Woo Taek.
Together with other ambassadors from Central Asia, Turkmenistan's Envoy to Belgium took part in a meeting with the Regional Director of the Directorate General of the European Commission for International Cooperation (DG INTPA) Peteris Ustubus. This is reported on the page of the Turkmen diplomatic mission on Instagram.
Scientists from the North Caucasus Federal University and the Institute of System Programming of the Russian Academy of Sciences in cooperation with colleagues from Korea, Mexico and Uruguay have developed a reliable communication protocol for the smart city network.
Iranian Energy Minister Ali-Akbar Mehrabyan said that his country will soon start exchanging electricity with Russia through Azerbaijan, the ISNA news agency reported on Sunday.
On Sunday, July 16, an international trade fair opened in Kabul, which was attended by hundreds of local merchants, representatives of large and small Afghan companies. In addition, industrialists from Iran, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Pakistan and other countries presented their products at the exhibition, TOLOnews reports.
On Saturday, the grand finish ceremony of the Silk Road International Rally 2023 took place on Red Square in the very center of Moscow. She gathered several thousand fans at Vasilyevsky Descent, who came to congratulate the winners and prize-winners and to see the passage of sports cars through the finish arch.
At the 17th Asian Chess Championship among Schoolchildren held in Tashkent on July 15 and 16, the first four rounds of competitions with classical time regulations were held.
