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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called his Turkmen counterpart Serdar Berdimuhamedov on Tuesday, congratulating him on the holiday of Eid al-Fitr and accepting congratulations in return.

During the government meeting, President Serdar Berdimuhamedov said that the Arkadag of the Turkmen people Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, while on labor leave, completed work on another book called "The Meaning of My Life" ("Ömrümin manysy"), which has already been published.

President Serdar Berdimuhamedov proposed that the name of the country's new city be put up for public discussion. On Thursday, the head of state visited the administrative center of the Akhal region, which is under construction in the Geoktepe district, and got acquainted with the state of affairs at this largest construction site in the country and the progress of work at its key facilities.

President Serdar Berdimuhamedov met on Tuesday with a member of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, Defense Minister Wei Fenghe, who is visiting Ashgabat.

President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov sent a congratulatory telegram to Emmanuel Macron, who won the presidential election in France.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent a congratulatory message to Turkmen President Serdar Berdimuhamedov on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty on Friendship and Cooperation between the two countries, according to the Kremlin website.

President Serdar Berdimuhamedov has conferred the honorary title of "Turkmenistan’s named breed of honor " ("Honored Horse of Turkmenistan") on two foreign nationals - members of the International Association of Akhal-Teke horse breeding, and seven domestic specialists.

Turkmenistan will hold equestrian tournaments of international level and participate in such events abroad. This direction of activity, as one of the ways to popularize the Akhal-Teke horse breed in the world, national traditions of horse breeding and equestrianism, were designated by President Serdar Berdimuhamedov as one of the main tasks of the International Association of Akhal-Teke Horse Breeding, the XII meeting of which was held in Ashgabat on Wednesday.

The XII session of the International Association of Akhal-Teke horse breeding took place on Wednesday under the chairmanship of President Serdar Berdimuhamedov at the Oguzkent metropolitan hotel, the official Turkmen media reported.

President Serdar Berdimuhamedov congratulated Queen Margrethe II of Denmark on her birthday, which is celebrated in the Danish state on April 16 as a national holiday.