On October 16, 2019, a meeting was held between the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan R. Meredov and the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United Kingdom to Turkmenistan, Mr. Hugh Stanley Philpott, during which the diplomat presented copies of his credentials to the Turkmen side. The diplomats discussed a wide range of issues regarding the political-diplomatic, trade-economic and cultural-humanitarian interaction of the two countries. They also considered the possi...

On October 16, 2019, in Minsk, under the chairmanship of Turkmenistan, a meeting of the Council of Permanent Plenipotentiaries of the Member States of the Commonwealth under its statutory and other bodies was held. During the meeting, the results of the recent Summit of the Heads of States of the Commonwealth of Independent States in Ashgabat and the tasks of the CIS Executive Committee on the implementation of the adopted documents were discussed. As was emphasized, the main outcome docum...

On October 16, 2019, during a working visit to the PRC, the delegation of Turkmenistan, headed by the Deputy Chairman of the Mejlis of Turkmenistan K. Babayev, had a meeting with the member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the CPC, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of the People's Republic of China Li Zhanshu. The head of the Chinese parliament warmly greeted the Turkmen delegation and expressed his wish for further deepening a...

On October 15, 2019, the VII Summit of the Cooperation Council of Turkic Speaking States was held in the capital of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Baku. The high-level event was attended by delegations headed by President of Turkey R.T. Erdogan, President of the Republic of Uzbekistan S. Mirziyoyev, President of the Kyrgyz Republic S. Jeenbekov, the Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban, the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan N. Nazarbayev and the Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Mi...

On October 14, 2019, political consultations were held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan between the foreign affairs agencies of Turkmenistan and the People's Republic of China at the level of deputy foreign ministers. Chinese delegation was headed by Deputy Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China Le Yucheng. In particular, the parties discussed pressing issues of the regional and international agenda. Speaking about the activation of contacts at the highest levels...

On October 14-15, 2019, the delegation of Turkmenistan, headed by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan B. Myatiev, held consultations with the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Italian Republic, Mr. Manlio Di Stefano. During the meeting, issues of expanding bilateral cooperation in the political-diplomatic, trade-economic, cultural and humanitarian fields were discussed. Particular attention was paid to the organization of the upcoming o...

On October 12, 2019, in the premises of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, with the participation of the representatives of national and foreign media, as well as heads and representatives of diplomatic missions and international organizations accredited in Turkmenistan, a briefing was held on the meetings of the Council of Foreign Ministers and the Council of Heads of States of the CIS held in Ashgabat on 10 and 11 October, 2019. Besides the Head of the external policy agency o...