On June 25, 2018, the UN Human Rights Council (UNHCR), at the 38th session held in Geneva, Switzerland, adopted the Joint Statement on encouraging the protection of cultural heritage along the Great Silk Road with a view to promote universal respect for cultural rights. The following 24 states along with Turkmenistan became the co-sponsors of this Joint Statement: Afghanistan, Albania, Armenia, Bangladesh, Belarus, Georgia, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Kazakhstan, Cambodia, Canada, China, th...

On June 22, 2018, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan R.Meredov had a meeting with Rastislav Vrbensky, Deputy Director of the UNDP Regional Bureau for Europe and CIS countries, during which the issues of Turkmenistan's cooperation with UNDP were discussed. Noting the results of the international conference "Partnership for Financing Development at the Heart of the Great Silk Road", held on June 20-21, 2018 in Ashgabat, the Turkmen side expressed its full commitment to further stre...

ANNOUNCEMENT Being an active participant in the United Nations, neutral Turkmenistan, in the years of its independence, has joined all major international conventions, treaties and agreements on human rights. As is known, the Law of Turkmenistan "On the Ombudsman" was adopted in November 2016. On March 20, 2017, at the 19th session of the 5th convocation of the Mejlis of Turkmenistan, with the secret ballot of deputies in Turkmenistan, the Authorized representative for human rights - Ombud...

On June 20, 2018, President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov left for a working visit to the Republic of Tajikistan in order to participate in the High-Level International Conference on the UN Decade of Action "Water for Sustainable Development, 2018-2028". After an hour and a half flight, the presidential airliner landed at the International airport of the capital of Tajikistan, where the national flags of the two countries were raised on flagpoles. President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamed...

PRESS-RELEASE 20 June 2018, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan In conjunction with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) nationalization process in Turkmenistan, the United Nations Development Programme and the State Bank for Economic Affairs (TFEB) are working to improve the access of Turkmenistan to international financing and to improve its capacity to deliver and manage such financing streams effectively. As part of the joint initiative, on June 20, 2018, UNDP and TFEB held International Fin...

On June 19, 2018 in the National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Astana, the XIII Forum of Creative and Scientific Intelligentsia of the countries-participants of the Commonwealth of Independent States, in which the delegation of Turkmenistan participates, began its work. The theme of the annual meeting was "Dialogue in the CIS - prospects for humanitarian cooperation in the 21st century". The event, organized with the support of the Intergovernmental Foundation for Educational, Scien...

On June 14, 2018, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan there was a meeting with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Slovenia in Turkmenistan (with residence in Moscow) Primozh Sheligo, who is completing his diplomatic mission in Turkmenistan. During the meeting, the Ambassador expressed his sincere gratitude to the Turkmen side for the support rendered to the Embassy over the years. Noting the effective development of mutually beneficial cooperati...