Newly elected President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov, in a telephone conversation with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday, confirmed his readiness to further develop a multifaceted partnership with China, the State News Agency of Turkmenistan reports.

Last Tuesday, the leaders of a number of foreign countries had telephone conversations with Turkmen leader Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and newly elected President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov, the State News Agency of Turkmenistan reports. Among them are the leaders of Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Armenia, Pakistan and other countries.

Turkmenistan will continue to work on the successful implementation of programs aimed at ensuring a high standard of living for the people. This was announced on Tuesday by the newly elected President Serdar Berdimuhamedov at an expanded meeting of the government and the State Security Council of Turkmenistan.

Turkmenistan will continue the course towards progressive expansion of mutually beneficial partnership with Russia. This was stated on Tuesday by newly elected President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov in a telephone conversation with President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, the State News Agency of Turkmenistan reports.

The newly elected President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov stressed that he intends to continue to implement the foreign policy pursued by our country to expand cooperation with the UN, the State News Agency of Turkmenistan reports.

Commitment to relations of friendship and brotherhood with Pakistan was confirmed by the newly elected President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov in a telephone conversation with President of Pakistan Arif Alvi, the State News Agency of Turkmenistan reported on Tuesday.

The largest number of votes in the elections of the President of Turkmenistan – 72.97% - was won by Vice-Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers Serdar Berdimuhamedov.

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

The International Investment Forum to attract foreign investment in the oil and gas sector of Turkmenistan (OGT-2022) will be held on March 29-30, 2022. The Forum is organized by the State Concerns «Turkmennebit», «Turkmengas», «Turkmenchemistry» and the State Corporation «Turkmengeology» in partnership with the Turkmen Forum with the support of the British company GaffneyCline.

CIS observers did not record violations that could have influenced the results of the March 12 presidential elections in Turkmenistan. This was stated by the head of the CIS Mission, First Deputy Chairman of the CIS Executive Committee Leonid Anfimov, the Orient news agency reports.

On Sunday, March 13, a briefing was held at the Garagum hotel in the capital, at which the chairman of the Central Election Commission of Turkmenistan, G. Muradov, spoke about the preliminary results of the early presidential elections in the country.

Last Saturday, March 12, from 7:00 am, more than 2,500 polling stations in Turkmenistan began voting in early presidential elections. In total, about 3.5 million voters were registered to vote.

Voting at polling stations for the upcoming March 12 presidential elections in Turkmenistan will be broadcast online on the website «saylav.gov.tm» of the Central Election Commission.

In Turkmenistan, on Thursday, all meetings of presidential candidates with the electorate on the presentation of election programs officially ended, the website of the Central Commission for Elections and Referendums (CEC) in the country reported.

President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov signed a resolution allowing the State Concern "Turkmennebit" to conclude an additional agreement with the company "Tatneft" on the provision of services at the Goturdepe oil and gas field.