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Meeting of the President of Turkmenistan With the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan

The President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov, who had arrived in the Kazakh capital on a working visit, met with the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. The meeting was held with the participation of members of the delegations of the two countries. Before the meeting, President Serdar Berdimuhamedov and President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev took pictures against the background of the State Flags of Turkmenistan and the Republic of Kazakhstan.

16 August 2024

Politics

Meeting of the President of Turkmenistan With the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan

The President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov, who had arrived in the capital of Kazakhstan on a working visit to participate in the Sixth Consultative Meeting of the Heads of State of Central Asia, met with the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev. After warmly greeting each other and exchanging a firm handshake, the leaders of the two neighbouring countries took a photo against the background of the State Flags of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

16 August 2024

Politics

President of Turkmenistan Takes a Cycling Ride Through the Avaza National Tourism Zone

President Serdar Berdimuhamedov, who is on a labour leave, took a bike ride along the Avaza national tourism zone on the Caspian Sea coast. Turkmenistan currently attaches particular importance to the promotion of healthy lifestyle principles in society. In this regard, targeted measures are being implemented to protect people’s health, to harmoniously develop the younger generation and to provide conditions for comfortable and healthy recreation for citizens, especially during their vacation. All this is one of the priorities of the socially oriented policy successfully implemented under the leadership of President Serdar Berdimuhamedov and based on the motto proclaimed by the Hero-Arkadag “The state is for the people!”.

16 August 2024

Politics

National Leader of the Turkmen People Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov Visits the Centre of Motorsports of Turkmenistan

During his holidays, the National Leader of the Turkmen people, Chairman of the Halk Maslahaty of Turkmenistan, who attaches great importance to promoting a healthy lifestyle and exercises different sports, visited the Centre of Motorsports of Turkmenistan, located in the north of the capital. Currently, much attention is being paid to promoting motorsports in the country. In this regard, consistent measures are being taken to strengthen the material and technical base of the Centre. The issues related to improving the skills of motorsports athletes and their performance at international competitions are being addressed at the state level. This gives our compatriots the opportunity to demonstrate their professionalism and show high results.

16 August 2024

Politics

A Faithful Son of His Motherland

“A man always has a name. Even if he passes away, his name lives on. I often remember my father. The wise men said the wealth of a man in this world is his good name.” These are the words from the book The Meaning of My Life by the National Leader of the Turkmen people, Chairman of the Halk Maslahaty of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, in which he devoted many pages to his father Myalikguly Berdimuhamedov. Myalikguly Berdimuhamedov would have turned 92 on August 12. He, a teacher by vocation, a career military man and expert in historical methodology, went a long and glorious way from a rural schoolteacher to a high officer rank. Myalikguly aga worked with full dedication of his strength, knowledge and skills in all he periods of his life. An honorary veteran of labour and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he enjoyed great authority and respect among the Turkmen people, being a worthy example for the youth to follow.

16 August 2024

People

Turkmenistan — UN: Cooperation for the Sake of Peace and Creation

For over 30 years, Turkmenistan, as a full and active member of the United Nations, continues to make a significant contribution to the implementation of the principles of its Charter. Defending the importance of peaceful coexistence, preventive diplomacy and equal dialogue, Turkmenistan has always advocated constructive cooperation on the international arena. In preparation for the celebration of the 30th anniversary of neutrality in 2025 and the implementation of the UN General Assembly Resolution declaring the next year the International Year of Peace and Trust, Turkmenistan will continue to actively interact with partners. Specific steps taken by the state are reflected in the priority positions of Turkmenistan, which will be announced at the 79th session of the UN General Assembly. Under the leadership of the esteemed President Serdar Berdimuhamedov, Turkmenistan is actively preparing for the start of the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly. As a country that has officially adopted all 17 Sustainable Development Goals and adapted them to national plans and strategies for socioeconomic development, Turkmenistan calls for further strengthening multilateral cooperation in all key areas of society.

16 August 2024

Cooperation

Telephone Conversation Between the President of Turkmenistan and the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan

A telephone conversation took place between the President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov and the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. Upon warmly greeting each other, the heads of the two states noted with satisfaction the high level of Turkmen-Kazakh relations, fruitful and strategic in nature.

9 August 2024

Politics

National Leader of the Turkmen People, Chairman of the Halk Maslahaty of Turkmenistan Inspects the Progress of the Implementation of the Second Stage of the City of Arkadag

The National Leader of the Turkmen people, Chairman of the Halk Maslahaty, Honorary Elder Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov made a flight over the city of Arkadag, during which he acquainted himself with the projects of industrial facilities, the pace of work and the locations of the second-stage production complexes. In the morning, the National Leader of the Turkmen people arrived at the International Airport of the capital. There, the Chairman of the State Committee for the Construction of the City of Arkadag under the President of Turkmenistan D. Orazov and Arkadag City Hyakim G. Mammedova informed of the dynamics of construction work, projects and layouts of the planned production complexes.

9 August 2024

Politics

Community of Action and Mutual Support are the Dictate of the Time

During a telephone conversation on August 5, the President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev invited the President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov to take part in the Sixth Consultative Meeting of the Heads of State of Central Asia and in the First Summit of the Central Asia + Japan Dialogue, which will be held in Astana. Upon accepting the invitation with respect, the Head of the Turkmen state expressed confidence that the initiatives that would be announced at those meetings would serve to define new prospects for cooperation in the region and wished those events success.

9 August 2024

People

Promotion, Protection and Realisation of Human Rights are the Main Values of Turkmenistan

The principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights laid the foundation for the promotion, protection and implementation of human rights throughout the world. Turkmenistan, a country that recognised this declaration from the first days of its independence, responsibly approaches the implementation of the norms of the document of a universal nature. Ensuring human rights and freedoms in the country is a key indicator of democratic reforms aimed at improving the living conditions of people. Under the leadership of the esteemed President, our country makes a significant contribution to the promotion and protection of human rights with its peace-loving policy based on humane principles. Having joined a number of important UN conventions, Turkmenistan strictly complies with its obligations to the world community. A concrete step in this direction is the initiatives put forward by the esteemed President from the high rostrum of the United Nations.

9 August 2024

People

Tehran Convention: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

Since 2007, the day of entry into force of the Framework Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Caspian Sea (Tehran) on August 12, Turkmenistan, the Russian Federation, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Iran celebrate as Caspian Sea Day. Now this eco-date is addressed to millions of residents of the coastal areas of the five states, which are connected by environmental and economic activities, energy extraction, fishing and cargo and passenger transportation. The Tehran Convention is the first official legal document that contributed to the transfer of activities in the Caspian region from the “voluntary implementation” mode to the plane of legal guarantees for the implementation of environmental measures, raising the Caspian regional interaction to a higher level. Its goal is the conservation, restoration and sustainable and rational use of the biological resources of the sea. Our country, along with other Caspian states, signed this document in November 2003, and was the first of the Caspian Five to ratify it in 2004. The content of the Convention is being improved. The five-party working groups of experts continue to develop new protocols and to promote the ratification and implementation of previously adopted ones. Gozel Orazdurdiyeva, National Liaison Officer with the Secretariat of the Tehran Convention, talks about the latest news in the legal sp

9 August 2024

People

International Centre of Traumatology: Modern Diagnostic and Treatment Methods

The International Centre of Traumatology in Ashgabat is the major traumatology and orthopaedic clinic in Turkmenistan that offers diagnostics, treatment and rehabilitation to patients with the musculoskeletal disorders and injuries.

9 August 2024

Health

The Best Carpets in the World

Nusaý, Kerwen, Kerwenli and Güneş – a new carpet collection created by specialists of the Abadan Haly Open Joint Stock Company is of great interest to both wholesale buyers and retail customers. Unique sketches are used to make carpets by private orders and in industrial quantities. Starting from colour schemes for the contrasts and symmetry to the ideal selection of dimensions of the future product, each carpet has its own pattern. However, all of them, despite their differences, have a common background, a common semantic load – everything that allows saying: this is a Turkmen carpet! Centuries-old traditions

9 August 2024

Technology

The Land of Healing — Mollakara

Summer 2024 is a wonderful time for labour holidays and recreation of our compatriots at the resorts of the sunny country, located in the heavenly places of the earth. This is what the Chairman of the Halk Maslahaty of Turkmenistan, scientist, doctor Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov tells about in his book Türkmenistan – melhemler mekany. Indeed, our sunny country is a land of healing. Here, nature itself heals with its miraculous power: climate, water, silt and muds with healing properties.

9 August 2024

People

Unforgettable Holidays

These August days will be unforgettable for the children having a rest in the Daýanç health centre. The rich programme will fully reveal the traditions of hospitality of the Turkmen people. It was prepared by the organising committee for the students – winners of the International Mathematical Olympiad, which was held in the city of Arkadag in March this year. These are children from the Russian Federation, five velayats of Turkmenistan and the city of Arkadag and children under the patronage of the Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov Charitable Foundation for Aid to Children in Need of Guardianship.

9 August 2024

People

Young Champion of the Continent

The Asian Wrestling Championships ended in the Thai city of Si Racha in late July. These competitions made themselves memorable for a victory celebrated by a 17-year-old athlete from Ashgabat Alp Arslan Begenjov in the under 79 kg weight category of the U20 freestyle wrestling tournament. Our compatriot is the first Turkmen athlete to show such a high result on the international sports arena. On the way to the gold medal, Alp Arslan performed in 4 matches, in 3 of which he gained the so-called clear victory with a difference of 10 points. He defeated a Japanese wrestler Shunsuke Mizusaki (12:2) at the start and left no chance for Ramazan Iskanderov from Kyrgyzstan (10:0) in the quarterfinals. In the semifinal, the Turkmen athlete wrestled with the 2023 Asian Champion in the under 74 kg category Yerkan Beksultanov from Kazakhstan, who failed to provide decent resistance and lost 0:6 to Alp Arslan.

9 August 2024

Sport

Maintaining health in the summer heat

Turkmen summer rarely pleases us with cool days, more often we encounter sharp temperature fluctuations – periods of heat and scorching heat. Temperature fluctuations affect the general wellbeing of each of us. Therefore, it is very important to know how to endure periods of hot weather with the least harm to health and, first of all, how to avoid overheating, when heat stroke can occur. Publications on this topic often appear on the pages of newspapers, in addition, television and radio programmes and social videos shown on national television channels are devoted to it. Medical specialists, for example, family doctors and nurses, carry out extensive sanitary and preventive work with residents of their territorial areas.

9 August 2024

Health

Sitting of the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan

President Serdar Berdimuhamedov conducted via the digital system a regular sitting of the Cabinet of Ministers, the agenda of which included a number of issues of state life. The first to speak was the Chairwoman of the Mejlis D. Gulmanova, who informed of the ongoing work on legislative support in various spheres. In particular, it was noted that together with representatives of ministries and industry departments, the analysis of legal acts in force and the development of bills were being carried out.

2 August 2024

Politics

The National Leader of the Turkmen People, Chairman of the Halk Maslahaty of Turkmenistan Makes a Working Trip to the City of Arkadag

The National Leader of the Turkmen people, Chairman of the Halk Maslahaty, Honorary Elder Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov made a working trip to the city of Arkadag. There, the Hero-Arkadag acquainted himself with the drawings and locations of future buildings and the models of new facilities, planned for construction within the framework of the second stage, and conducted a working meeting. Currently, work on the further development of the city of Arkadag is underway. This causes a change in the architectural look of the new city in accordance with the requirements of the time. A large-scale urban planning programme, initiated by the Hero-Arkadag and now being implemented under the leadership of Arkadagly Hero Serdar, is being successfully carried out.

2 August 2024

Politics

Consolidating Forum of Democracy

Speaking at an extended sitting of the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan on July 12 this year, President Serdar Berdimuhamedov noted that during the celebration of the 33rd anniversary of the country’s sacred independence, a regular meeting of the Halk Maslahaty of Turkmenistan, the highest representative body of people’s power, will be held in Ashgabat, at which the results of the political, socioeconomic and cultural development of the sovereign Turkmen state will be summed up. Arkadag Hero Serdar stressed the need to take appropriate decisions on the establishment of an Organising Committee to convene, fix the date of and hold at a high level this national forum of Turkmenistan unique in its form and content. As you know, the Halk Maslahaty of Turkmenistan, first established on a constitutional basis back in 1992, has passed a certain evolutionary path of its development, and today, in the period of the Revival of the New Era of the Powerful State, occupies a worthy place in its political and legal system, fully conforming to the primordial national traditions of democracy and the constitutional provision that the bearer of sovereignty and the only source of state power in Turkmenistan is the people.

2 August 2024

People