On December 7, 2018 at the capital’s hotel “Yildyz” there has finished the work of the international conference on ministers’ level “Importance of the Great Silk Road: present and future development”. During the conference there were discussed the following themes: “From Historical Routes to Modern Highways: Revival of the Great Silk Road”, “Shared Heritage and Plural Identities along the Silk Road” and “Spreading of Culture through Commerce along the Great Silk Road”. The conference, which w...

On December 6, 2018, at the “Yyldyz” Hotel of the capital there was held the opening ceremony of an international conference at the ministerial level on the theme: “Importance of the Great Silk Road: Present and Future Development”, organized by UNESCO in cooperation with the Government of Turkmenistan. At the opening ceremony of the conference, the Minister of Culture of Turkmenistan A. Shamyradov made an opening speech. Then he gave the floor to the Deputy Chairwoman of the Cabinet of Minis...

On December 6, 2018, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov visited the Russian Federation on a working visit to attend an informal meeting of the heads of CIS member states. President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov proceeded to the Boris Yeltsin Library from the St. Petersburg International Airport, where a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council was held under the chairmanship of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. After mutual greetings and traditional photo-sharing...

On the 4th of December, 2018 at the capital’s “Yildyz” hotel there was an Expert Meeting on the theme “Traditional Sports and Games  of the Interactive Atlas of Cultural Interactions along the Silk Road” with the participation of the representatives of UNESCO and other International Organizations. The Representative of Turkmenistan Government and Representative of UNESCO made their presentations in the opening ceremony of the Meeting. Also there was held a presentation of UNESKO’s Silk Road p...

On November 29, 2018 there was a briefing in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan with participation of the representatives of national and foreign mass media and representatives of the Embassies and international organizations accredited in Turkmenistan, which was dedicated to the international initiatives of Turkmenistan in the field of transport and transit corridors. Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Motor transport of Turkmenistan, Mr. Umberto De Pretto, Secretary Ge...

On November 29, 2018 the second session of the Joint intergovernmental Turkmen-Egyptian commission on economic and scientific-technical cooperation was held in Cairo city. In the framework there were 11 bilateral meetings of the heads and representatives of the ministries and government agencies of Turkmenistan and Arab Republic of Egypt, during which the parties exchanged opinions on the areas that cause mutual interest and agreements on a number of areas were reached. On the sideline of...

On November 28, 2018, the International Conference of Ministers of Transport of the States-Parties to the Agreement on Transit and Transport Cooperation (Lapis Lazuli) continued its work in the format of plenary sessions in the National tourist zone “Avaza”. During the speeches at the meeting, participants touched on the role of international cooperation in the development of transport and transit corridors, multimodal transport and their prospects in the transport corridor of Lapis-Lazuli an...