On December 2, 2023, late in the evening, President Serdar Berdimuhamedov’s working visit to the United Arab Emirates, where the 28th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP-28) is taking place, ended. The state and prospects for building up the Turkmen-Emirati interstate dialogue were discussed during the meeting of the President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov, who is taking part in the COP28 climate conference in Dubai, and the Vice-President,...

On December 1, 2023, President Serdar Berdimuhamedov, during his speech at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai, confirmed the initiative to open a UN Regional Centre for Climate Change Technologies in Central Asia in Turkmenistan. The head of state noted the importance of signing on the 13th of November this year a Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of Environmental Protection of Turkmenistan and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) for the development of regional program...

On December 1, 2023 at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai President Serdar Berdimuhamedov officially announced Turkmenistan's accession to the Global Methane Pledge. It was noted that Turkmenistan expressed support for the new initiative on the Global Methane Pledge and expressed it’s interest in a detailed study of the document and participation in it’s implementation at the 26th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Glasgow. Taking in...

On December 1, 2023, President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov held a meeting on the sidelines of the COP28 Conference with the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations Inger Andersen. At the beginning of the meeting, the parties confirmed readiness of Turkmenistan and UNEP to further strengthen the traditional fruitful interaction. As President Serdar Berdimuhamedov noted, Turkmenistan identifies climate chan...

On December 1, 2023, President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov left for the United Arab Emirates (Dubai) on a working visit to participate in the 28th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28). The President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov is scheduled to speak at the climate summit, who will voice Turkmenistan’s position on the issues on the agenda. The participation of the head of state confirms the commitment of Neutral Turkmenistan t...

On November 27-28, 2023, the delegation of Turkmenistan led by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs M.Byashimova took part in the 13th annual meeting of the Deputy Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Central Asian states, organized by the UN Regional Center for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA) with the support of the government of the Kyrgyz Republic. During the meeting, participants exchanged views on events and trends affecting peace and security in Central Asia, the situation i...

On November 27, 2023, a telephone conversation took place between President Serdar Berdimuhamedov and the Special Representative of the President of the United States of America for climate change John Kerry. During the conversation, the parties discussed issues related to preparations for the upcoming COP-28 Conference in Dubai, climate issues, in particular, interaction between Turkmenistan and the United States in the field of reducing methane emissions into the atmosphere and the possibil...