On February 1, 2024, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov held a telephone conversation with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Türkiye Hakan Fidan, during which an exchange of views took place on a number of topical issues of Turkmen-Turkish cooperation. The parties discussed the progress of implementation of bilateral agreements reached at the highest state level, and also considered the possibilities of further increasing the potential of mutual pa...

On January 27, 2024, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan hosted a regular meeting of the Interdepartmental Commission to ensure the implementation of Turkmenistan’s international obligations in the field of human rights and international humanitarian law, which was attended by representatives of the Mejlis of Turkmenistan, a number of ministries, departments and public organizations of the country. The agenda included a discussion of the results of the work carried out by the Inte...

On January 25, 2024, negotiations were held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan with the delegation of the UAE News agency “WAM”, which was in Turkmenistan on its first working visit. During the meeting, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Myahri Byashimova and Director-General of the Emirates News Agency “WAM” Mohammed Jalal Al Rayssi outlined the main directions of bilateral Turkmen-Emirati cooperation in the information sphere. The Director-General of “WAM” introduced the...

Turkmenistan, which has an internationally recognized status of permanent neutrality, implements its foreign policy in strict accordance with the norms of international law. In this regard, based on the Charter of the United Nations, one of the main principles of which is the respect of the territorial integrity of states, Turkmenistan declares its firm support for the principle of "One China" and reaffirms that the government of the People's Republic of China is the only legitimate governmen...

The national position statement on climate change and environmental security, made by the President of Turkmenistan during the twenty-eighth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28) in Dubai on December 1-2, 2023, was published and distributed in the six official languages of the UN as an official document of the 78th session of the General Assembly. The full text of the document can be found at the following link https://un...

On January 6, 2023, at the Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, a presentation ceremony of the first book of the President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov “Youth is the support of the Motherland” (“Ýaşlar – Watanyň daýanjy”) took place. The event was attended by representatives of the Foreign Ministry, the Institute of State, Law and Democracy, public organizations, faculty and students of the institute. The Minister of Foreign Affairs...

On January 5, 2024, the working visit of the National Leader of the Turkmen people, Chairman of the Halk Maslahaty of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov to the United Arab Emirates ended. As is known, on January 4, a meeting between the Chairman of the Halk Maslahaty and the President of the UAE took place in Abu Dhabi, during which specific proposals for further intensification of bilateral cooperation in a number of promising areas were considered. On the second day of his visit to D...