On October 21, 2019, the second meeting of the joint Turkmen-Georgian commission on international road transport began in Tbilisi. The Deputy Minister of Industry and Communication of Turkmenistan heads the Turkmen delegation; the Georgian side is headed by the Deputy Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia. The delegations shared information and statistics on trade turnover and volume of road transport between the two countries. A high growth rate in bilateral transport...

On October 18, 2019, the opening ceremony of the VII Summer Military World Games was held in the city of Wuhan of the People’s Republic of China, where the sports delegation of the Armed forces of Turkmenistan participated for the first time. Military World Games are the biggest event in the world after the Olympic Games. More than ten thousand athletes and trainers as well as representatives of the technical staff from more than 100 countries of the world take part in current games, which wi...

On October 18-19, 2019, the VII China-Central Asia Cooperation Forum was held in Nanning, the economic, administrative and cultural center of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of the PRC, in which representatives of Turkmenistan also participated. The event was organized by the SCO China Committee for Good Neighborhood, Friendship and Cooperation, the Foreign Affairs Office of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and the People’s Government of this region. The meeting brought together head...

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 17, 2019, the delegation of Turkmenistan to the OSCE made a statement at the meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council on the outcome of the Summit of Heads of States of CIS countries. In the statement, it was noted that during the Summit, the participants exchanged views on cooperation on the CIS space and highly appreciated the ongoing joint activities aimed at the achieving higher levels of multilateral collaboration. The delegation of Turkmenistan to the OSCE had informed the Co...

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 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...