The Editorial Office of the “Foreign Policy and Diplomacy of Turkmenistan” magazine interviewed Ms. Freya von Groote, Director of the UNOPS Multi-country Office in Austria, who told about the key vectors of cooperation of UNOPS with Turkmenistan. United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) is the operational arm of the United Nations implementing unit projects for the UN system. What are the priority tasks for UNOPS? As a member of the United Nations family, UNOPS has a mandate, exp...

On June 9, 2021, in accordance with the instructions of the President of Turkmenistan, the visit of the governmental delegation of Turkmenistan to the United Arab Emirates headed by the Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers, Chairman of the Supreme Control Chamber of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov has started. The delegation is composed of the heads and representatives of the key ministries and departments of Turkmenistan. On June 10, the meeting of the Turkmen delegation with the C...

During the period of 5-6 June 2021, a high-level Turkmen delegation headed by the Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov was on a working visit to Afghanistan.      In the first day of the visit that is on June 5, the extended consultations of Turkmen and Afghan delegations led by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Rashid Meredov and Mohammad Haneef Atmar were held.  The dele...

Today, on June 7, an online meeting of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia Nikola Selakovic was held. During the meeting, a constructive exchange of views took place on key issues of bilateral and international agenda. The mutual strive of the parties to further development of Turkmen-Serbian interaction on all vectors posing mutual interest was underlined.  In this respect, the intention of two countr...

During the period of June 3-4, 2021, the governmental delegation of Turkmenistan headed by the Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers, Chairman of the Supreme Control Chamber of Turkmenistan S.G.Berdimuhamedov was on the working visit to Saint Petersburg of the Russian Federation. The main goal of the visit was to take part in the 24th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. This representative event of world scale has brought together the members of governments from tens of countri...

On June 2, 2021, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov met with the newly appointed Head of the OSCE Center in Ashgabat, Ambassador John MacGregor. Expressing gratitude for the kind wishes on his appointment to the position of the Head of the OSCE Center in Ashgabat, Ambassador John MacGregor confirmed his readiness to fully support the advancement of cooperation of the OSCE with Turkmenistan in the framework of three key dimensions of OSCE’s work.     The parties...

Today, on June 2, the online meeting between the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Vepa Hadjiyev and Regional Coordinator of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) for Central Asia, the head of the representative offices of the IOM in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan Zeynal Hajiyev. During the constructive talk the parties once again confirmed their interest in further expansion of cooperation on priority directions. The issues of strengtheni...