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On 22 February 2022, the Embassy of Turkmenistan in Georgia held an online briefing dedicated to the motto of 2022 “Epoch of people with Arkadag” and the upcoming presidential elections in Turkmenistan scheduled for 12 March 2022.

Initiative groups of citizens in the Balkan and Lebap regions put forward their candidates for the presidency of Turkmenistan. As part of the election campaign that started in Turkmenistan on February 14, the names of two more contenders for the highest state post became known on Friday.

Vice Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs Rashid Meredov, during a government meeting with the participation of members of the State Security Council, said that at present the activities of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, embassies and consulates of Turkmenistan are based on the Concept of Foreign Policy for 2017-2023.

The measures implemented in Turkmenistan to develop insurance activities, providing citizens and legal entities with high-quality insurance services, improving the relevant legal acts - all this was stated in the report of Deputy Prime Minister Serdar Berdimuhamedov at an extended meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers on Friday.

This week, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Governance Support Program, in partnership with the Hydrometeorology Service of the Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection of Turkmenistan and international experts, organized the second seminar on advanced automated meteorological measuring and information systems for weather forecasters in Ashgabat and Lebap.

The Office of Ombudsperson with the support of the UNDP in Turkmenistan actively participated in the series of online regional workshops on Accreditation by the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI) in the framework of the newly launched Accreditation Program of Asian Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions (APF).

The head of the Foreign Ministry of Turkmenistan, Rashid Meredov, discussed preparations for the presidential elections in the country during a face-to-face meeting in Ashgabat with Chargé d'Affaires of the Ashgabat Center of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Mr. R. Castberg, as well as in an online format with the General Secretary of the Organization of Turkic States, Mr. B. Amreev.

On Thursday, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov discussed by phone with Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov key issues of Turkmen-Russian cooperation.

The Central Election Commission of Turkmenistan has registered six initiative groups of citizens who will be able to nominate their candidates for the presidential elections in the country, the press service of the department reports.

On Wednesday, at a meeting of the Central Commission for Elections and Referenda in Turkmenistan, Deputy Head of the Mary region Agadzhan Bekmyradov, nominated by the Agrarian Party of Turkmenistan, was registered as a candidate for the presidency of the country.