On May 29, 2020, the Mejlis of Turkmenistan hosted a videoconference of the Inter-Parliamentary Friendship Group between representatives of the Mejlis of Turkmenistan and the House of Representatives of the Parliament of Japan. The Japanese delegation at the conference was headed by the Director of the Department of Financial Affairs of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, the head of the secretariat of the Parliamentary League of Japanese-Turkmen Friendship Matsushita Shinpei. At the be...

On May 28, 2020, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov held video conference negotiations with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Mohammad Haneef Atmar. In development of the telephone conversation between President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, which took place the day before, on May 27, diplomats discussed the current state and future prospects of...

On May 28, 2020, a high-level meeting on financing for development in the era of COVID-19 and beyond was held in video format. The event was jointly organized by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Jamaica's Prime Minister Andrew Holness. The event was attended by delegations of UN member states. From the Turkmen side, the Minister of Finance and Economics of Turkmenistan E.Annamuhammedov attended the meeting. The event was held in three segments....

On May 28, 2020, a meeting was held in a video conference format, with the participation of the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan V.Hajiev, the Secretary General of the European External Action Service (EEAS) Ms. Helga Schmid and the Deputy Foreign Ministers of Central Asian countries. During the online negotiations, the participants discussed the current state and prospects for the development of cooperation between the EU and Central Asia. The parties discussed the implemen...

On May 28, 2020, an international seminar in the format of video conferencing was held in the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan entitled: “Financing the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals: the role of integrated national financing mechanisms”. The meeting was attended by delegates at the level of ministers of the countries participating in the UN Special Program for the Economies of Central Asia (SPECA), which includes Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakh...

On May 27, 2020, consultations of the international consultant of Ms. Svetlana Poddubskaya on the “First Draft Technical Report compliance with the national system of Turkmenistan in combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism”were held in the Ministry of Finance and Economics of Turkmenistan in video conference format within the framework of the national preparations to the Mutual Assessment by Eurasian Group for the Development of Financial Measures against Money Laundering (EAG)...

An online training on border crossing facilitation for transit goods carried by rail and road, opened in Ashgabat on 27 May 2020. The training is organized by OSCE Centre in Ashgabat within the framework of the Centre’s extra-budgetary project on “Strengthening State Border Service Capacities in Turkmenistan”, which places a particular focus on promoting cross-border trade and transit in the Central Asian region. The purpose of the online training was to introduce participants to security, pu...