President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov expressed confidence that the upcoming official visit to the Republic of Turkey will open new pages in the further development of Turkmen-Turkish friendly and fraternal relations.

Less than two weeks remain before the start of the next International Conference and Exhibition “Oil and Gas of Turkmenistan – 2023” (OGT 2023), which will be held in Ashgabat on October 25-27. This is one of the key events for the energy industry of our country, at which current issues of development of the oil and gas sector will be discussed.

The next meeting of the Turkmen-Romanian working commission on cooperation in the energy sector was held on Tuesday at the Romanian Ministry of Energy. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan reports this.

At the auctions of the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan, 51 transactions were registered last week.

On Tuesday, the Day of Health Workers and the Medical Industry of the country, a ceremony was held at the Oguzkhan Palace complex to award the President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov with the Arkadag medal. The solemn event was attended by the chairman of the country’s Mejlis, deputy chairmen of the Cabinet of Ministers, heads of military and law enforcement agencies, TDH reports.

Priority issues of interstate cooperation were discussed on Monday at a meeting between President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov and Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, co-chairman of the Intergovernmental Turkmen-Russian Commission on Economic Cooperation Alexey Overchuk, TDH reports this.

Current issues of bilateral partnership were discussed at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan at negotiations between the co-chairs of the Intergovernmental Turkmen-Russian Commission on Economic Cooperation, the website of the Foreign Ministry of Turkmenistan reports.

The agenda of the upcoming regular meeting of the Turkmen-Iranian Intergovernmental Commission on Economic Cooperation was discussed in a telephone conversation between its co-chairs – Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov and Minister of Roads and Urban Development of Iran Mehrdad Bazrpash. The website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan reports this.

On October 5, President Serdar Berdimuhamedov held a regular meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers via a digital system, at which the results of the work of our country’s economic sectors for the nine months of 2023 were summed up, and upcoming tasks were discussed.

On October 7, 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 industry enterprises for nine months of the current year, held under the motto “The Year of Happy Youth with Arkadagly Serdar,” were discussed.

A memorandum of understanding on natural gas supplies was signed between the State Concern “Turkmengas” and the Ministry of Electricity of the Republic of Iraq.

Topical issues of interstate trade and economic cooperation were discussed on Wednesday, at a meeting between the President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov and the Minister of Economy of Azerbaijan Mikayil Jabbarov, who is on a visit to Turkmenistan.

Issues of developing the bilateral cooperation were discussed on Wednesday, at a meeting between the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov and a delegation of Azerbaijan, headed by the Minister of Economy Mikayil Jabbarov, which had arrived on a visit to Turkmenistan, as reported on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan.

On Wednesday, the Government of Turkmenistan held negotiations on expanding the Turkmen-Azerbaijani cooperation in the oil and gas sector with the Minister of Economy of Azerbaijan Mikayil Jabbarov, who is visiting Ashgabat at the head of the Azerbaijani delegation.

The delegation of Turkmenistan took part in an international conference entitled “Towards Carbon Neutrality: Education, Technology, Talents”, timed to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the China University of Petroleum and held in Beijing on October 1-2.