President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov highly appreciated the results of the official visit to Malaysia and the talks with Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim.

Following the official visit of the President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov to Malaysia on December 18-19 and talks with Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, a Joint Statement and a package of documents were signed, TDH reports.

President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov visited the headquarters of Petronas, the country's largest oil and gas company, during his official visit to Malaysia on December 18-19. During the meeting, the head of Turkmenistan discussed with the company's management priority areas of bilateral cooperation, the current state and prospects of partnership between Turkmenistan and Petronas in the energy sector, TDH reports.

President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov arrived in Malaysia on December 18 on an official visit, TDH reports.

On December 16, the Turkmen-American Business Forum was held in the building of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Turkmenistan, during which issues of bilateral cooperation were discussed, and plans for the near future were outlined.

On December 16, the joint fifteenth meeting of the Turkmen-Japanese and Japanese-Turkmen Committees on Economic Cooperation was held in Ashgabat at the Yildiz Hotel.

On December 16, President Serdar Berdimuhamedov received a member of the Board of Directors, Executive Vice President of Itochu Corporation, President of Machinery and Equipment, Chairman of the Turkmen-Japanese Committee on Economic Cooperation Hiroyuki Tsubai, who arrived in Ashgabat to participate in the next meeting of this committee, TDH reports.

On December 16, the President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov discussed priority areas of Turkmen-American cooperation with representatives of the US business community who arrived in Ashgabat to participate in the Turkmen-American Business Forum, TDH reports.

The issues of bilateral cooperation in the energy and gas sectors were discussed at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan at a meeting between the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the country Rashid Meredov and the Minister of Energy of Iran Abbas Aliabadi, the Foreign Ministry of our country reports.

On the occasion of the Day of Oil and Gas Industry and Geology Workers, a scientific and practical conference on the topic of «The Role of Scientific Research in the Oil and Gas Industry» was held at the Research Institute of Natural Gas (RING) of the Turkmengas State Corporation.

President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov sent heartfelt congratulations to President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and the fraternal people of the country on the occasion of the Republic's Independence Day. This was reported on December 16 by TDH.

The delegation of Turkmenistan, headed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the country Rashid Meredov, paid a working visit to Afghanistan to get acquainted with the practical implementation of large-scale joint energy, transport and infrastructure international projects. This was reported on December 16 by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan.

On December 12, Turkmenistan widely celebrated the International Day of Neutrality and the 29th anniversary of acquiring the status of permanent neutrality.

Prospects for cooperation in the field of energy and transport were discussed on December 12 at a meeting between the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov and a delegation led by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran for Legal and International Affairs Kazem Gharib-Abadi. This was reported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan.