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Chairman of the Mejlis of the Milli Gengesh of Turkmenistan Gulshat Mamedova met with the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev during her visit to Tashkent on September 8-9 to participate in the summit of women leaders of parliaments of the world.

On Wednesday, President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov received Li Hui, Special Representative of the Chinese Government for Eurasian Affairs.

Turkmenistan intends to expand existing cooperation with UNESCO, including with its Intergovernmental Committee for Physical Culture and Sports (CIGEPS). Turkmenistan has already been a member of this committee for the period 2017-2021 and is ready to nominate its candidacy for the CIGEPS membership for the period 2023-2027.

The Turkmen delegation from the transport complex of the country during a business visit to the Astrakhan region visited on Thursday the port special economic zone, which is being formed in the Limansky district, the village of Olya.

Turkmenistan has discovered 149 gas and gas condensate fields with reserves of more than 4.97 trillion cubic meters of gas. This, with reference to the Turkmen media, is reported by the Russian agency of economic information Prime.

By 2025, the extraction of natural gas in the Balkan region, which is key for the oil and gas industry of Turkmenistan, is planned to be increased to 11 billion cubic meters per year.

Avaza hosted the inauguration ceremony of the Global Transit Document (GTrD) Pilot Project, which, using blockchain technology, will provide a unique opportunity to provide container transportation without mandatory customs clearance across several borders on all modes of transport.

On Tuesday, August 17, 25 deals totaling $20.6 million and 3.9 million Turkmen manats were made at the auctions of the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan, ORIENT correspondent reports.

Digitalization is one of the key drivers for the progressive development of the transport industry in the modern world, and Turkmenistan attaches great importance to these trends, said Khadzhimurat Khudaikuliyev, chairman of the “Turkmensvyaz” Agency, speaking at the ministerial transport conference of landlocked countries in Avaza.

On Monday, August 15, at the auction of the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan, an entrepreneur from Turkey made deals for the purchase of various types of cotton yarn, ORIENT correspondent reports.