President Serdar Berdimuhamedov noted the importance of the upcoming roadshow in Dubai (UAE) in attracting foreign capital to the oil and gas sector of Turkmenistan.

President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov has approved a proposal to build in our country a second power plant with a capacity of 1574 MW with combined cycle gas cycle. The proposal to build it on the territory of the Balkan velayat was announced at a government meeting last Friday by Vice-Chairman Baymurad Annamammedov.

During the current week, 29 transactions were concluded at the auctions of the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan for a total of $28.4 million and 32.6 million Turkmen manats, ORIENT reports. A significant part of the total amount of transactions fell on the purchase of various types of fuel.

The individual enterprise "Geljege Miras", located in the industrial zone of Ak Bugday etrap, Akhal region, has mastered the production of motor oils for cars and trucks and has already sent the first batches of products abroad.

On the occasion of International Women's Day on March 8, solemn ceremonies honoring mothers of large families were held in Turkmenistan.

The Afghan Ministry of Mines and Oil has announced its readiness to start practical work on the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline project, the Pakistani BaaghiTV agency reports.

Issues of expanding trade and economic cooperation were discussed during the 17th meeting of the Joint Turkmen-Uzbek intergovernmental commission on trade, economic, scientific, technical and cultural cooperation, which was held on Monday in the capital of Turkmenistan. This is reported by the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan.

14 transactions were registered at the auctions of the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan last week.

A reporting meeting was held in the Central building of the Oil and Gas Complex of Turkmenistan, at which the results of the work of enterprises in the industry for January-February of this year, held under the motto «The Year of Happy Youth with Arkadagly Serdar», were discussed.

The results of the work of the sectors of the national economy for January-February 2023 were summed up at the regular meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan, which President Serdar Berdimuhamedov held via digital system last Friday.

The growth rates of Turkmenistan's GDP for the first two months remain at the level of 6.2%, which indicates that the state continues to develop dynamically. President Serdar Berdimuhamedov said this at a government meeting last Friday, at which the results of the development of industries in January-February 2023 were summed up.

On Thursday, after the plenary session of the Non-Aligned Movement Contact Group Summit on Combating COVID-19 in Baku, President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov had a brief meeting with his Uzbek counterpart Shavkat Mirziyoyev.

During the working visit of President Serdar Berdimuhamedov to Azerbaijan to participate in the Summit of the Contact Group of the Non-Aligned Movement to Combat COVID-19, the head of Turkmenistan met with President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev.

The President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov called on the active participation of the Non-Aligned States in the formation of the global energy security system. The head of Turkmenistan stated this at the Summit of the Contact Group of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) to combat COVID-19, held on Thursday in the capital of Azerbaijan.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov, as part of the C5 + 1 meeting in Astana, held bilateral talks with colleagues from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. This is reported by the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of our country.