Last week, 20 transactions were registered at the auctions of the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan.

Issues of further development of multidimensional interstate cooperation were discussed on Saturday during a telephone conversation between President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and President of the Republic of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the State News Agency of Turkmenistan reports.

The International Investment Forum «Oil and Gas of Turkmenistan» (OGT 2022) will be held on March 29-30 in Ashgabat and Dubai (UAE). This was announced by Vice-Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan Shakhym Abdrakhmanov at a government meeting, which President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov held last Friday in a digital system.

The state and prospects of the Turkmen-American trade and economic partnership were discussed on Thursday during a telephone conversation between President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and the head of the Turkmenistan-US Business Council Eric Stewart, the state news agency TDH reports.

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Turkmenistan to Uzbekistan Yazguly Mammadov represented our country at a conference in Tashkent, where special representatives and special envoys of the European Union and Central Asian countries took part to discuss issues related to the settlement of the situation in Afghanistan, Uzbekistan media reported.

On Wednesday, a meeting of voters with Vice-Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of the country Serdar Berdimuhamedov, nominated by the Democratic Party as a candidate for the post of President of Turkmenistan, was held in the conference hall of the hyakimlik of the Lebap velayat, the state news agency TDH reports.

Last Wednesday, the General Council of the World Trade Organization (WTO) considered the application of Turkmenistan to join the WTO and decided to grant Turkmenistan the status of an acceding country («active observer») to the WTO.

The agenda of the VI Caspian Summit, which is to be held in 2022 in Turkmenistan, was discussed by Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov at talks on February 22 in Moscow with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov.

In Turkmenistan, the stage of nomination and registration of candidates for the post of the President of the country at the forthcoming presidential elections in March has been completed. According to the law, candidates hold campaign meetings with voters. This was reported on the website of the Central Commission for Elections and Referendums in Turkmenistan.

Khydyrov Azat Yazmyradovich has been appointed director of the Seydi oil refinery of the Turkmenbashi complex of oil refineries.

On Monday, a meeting of voters with the candidate for the post of President of Turkmenistan, nominated by the Democratic Party of Turkmenistan, Vice-Chairman Serdar Berdimuhamedov, was held in the hyakimlik of the Dashoguz region, the State News Agency of Turkmenistan reports.

On Monday, the Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of our country (PIET), as well as initiative groups of citizens of Dashoguz region and Ashgabat, nominated their candidates for the post of President of Turkmenistan in the upcoming elections in March, TDH reports.

The gas workers of the «Gubadagetrapgaz» gas enterprise of the «Dashoguzgazupjunchilik» department in the year passing under the motto «Epoch of people with Arkadag» continue to professionally service gas distribution networks, uninterruptedly provide natural gas to the population, industrial, agricultural and household enterprises of the Dashoguz region.

During the extended meeting of the government, which President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov held last Friday, Vice-Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers Shakhym Abdrakhmanov reported on the ongoing measures to improve the country's oil refining industry and the preparation of long-term profile work plans.

Last Saturday, at a meeting of the Central Commission for Elections and Referendums in Turkmenistan, two candidates nominated by initiative groups of citizens for the post of President of Turkmenistan, whose early elections are scheduled for March 12, were registered.