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Leaders of Uzbekistan and Iran discuss relations

Leaders of Uzbekistan and Iran discuss relations

Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian discussed topical issues of further development of multifaceted relations. The meeting was held today on the sidelines of an international forum in …

Regular flights restored between Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan

Regular flights restored between Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan

Turkmenistan Airlines will resume regular flights between the cities of Ashgabat (Turkmenistan) and Almaty (Kazakhstan) from March 26, 2023, according to the press servie of Kazakhstan's Ministry of Industry and Infrastructural …

VI Caspian Summit to be held in Ashgabat on June 29

VI Caspian Summit to be held in Ashgabat on June 29

Ashgabat will host the 6th Caspian summit on June 29, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a briefing on Wednesday. The sixth Caspian summit was originally supposed to take place in 2021, then it was postponed to …

Ilham Aliyev and Ebrahim Raisi may meet in Ashgabat

Ilham Aliyev and Ebrahim Raisi may meet in Ashgabat

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi may meet in Ashgabat as part of the top summit of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO), Iranian Foreign Ministry's spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said …

CIS Council of Heads of States kicks off in Ashgabat

CIS Council of Heads of States kicks off in Ashgabat

A session of the CIS Council of the Heads of States has opened in Ashgabat. It is taking place in the Turkmen Cabinet's building. Russia is represented at the meeting by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. The …

Miller and Berdymuhamedov hold talks in Ashkhabad

Miller and Berdymuhamedov hold talks in Ashkhabad

Russia's Gazprom plans to resume purchases of natural gas from Turkmenistan very soon, CEO Alexei Miller said in an interview to the Turkmen television broadcast. Following his meeting with Turkmen President …

EU discusses security cooperation issues in Turkmenistan

EU discusses security cooperation issues in Turkmenistan

The countries of Central Asia and the European Union discussed the cooperation strategy at the 5th session of the High Level Dialogue (HLD) on Political and Security issues between the European Union and the countries of Central Asia in Ashgabat, …

Lapis Lazuli to provide incentive to develop region

Lapis Lazuli to provide incentive to develop region

Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey signed a major international trade and transport corridor deal on the sidelines of the 7th Regional Economic Cooperation Conference on Afghanistan (RECCA-VII) in Ashgabat, which was …

Lapis Lazuli to link Kabul, Baku and Ankara for $2 billion

Lapis Lazuli to link Kabul, Baku and Ankara for $2 billion

Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Georgia and Turkey signed a major international trade and transport corridor deal. The Lapis Lazuli Corridor will begin in Afghanistan’s northern Faryab province and Turqundi in the …

 Turkmenistan celebrates Constitution Day

Turkmenistan celebrates Constitution Day

Turkmenistan marks Constitution Day on May 18.  A national holiday - Day of Revival, Unity and Poetry of Magtymguly Fraghi - is also celebrated in Turkmenistan today. A ceremony of laying flowers at the Monument to the Constitution …

Caspian Sea status to be discussed in Ashgabat in late January

Caspian Sea status to be discussed in Ashgabat in late January

The next meeting of the working group on defining the legal status of the Caspian Sea will be held on January 27-28 in Ashgabat. All the countries confirmed their participation in the meeting, Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister …

Ashgabat hosts international book fair

Ashgabat hosts international book fair

Ashkhabad is hosting the tenth international book fair. It is the largest exhibition in the region: over 80 publishing centers from 19 states (including Turkey, Iran, the United States, Britain, Germany, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, …