High-ranking Turkmen delegation will take part in the UN Conference on Climate Change (COP26) in Glasgow. Representatives of the government of Turkmenistan informed the participants of an online meeting on climate action held on Tuesday with the participation of UNDP and the British Embassy about the preparations for the visit. This was reported in a UNDP press release in Turkmenistan.

On Tuesday, October 19, President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov received the head of the Russian oil company Lukoil Vagit Alekperov. In the hall of the meeting, the issues of the development of hydrocarbon resources of the Caspian region were discussed, taking into account the establishment of international cooperation based on legal norms and respect for each other's interests.

These days, active work continues on the preparation of the XXVI International Conference «Oil and Gas of Turkmenistan», which will be held on October 27-28 in Ashgabat.

The President of Turkmenistan took part in a meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the CIS, which took place on October 15 in the format of videoconferencing.

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

President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov at a government meeting last Friday approved the draft State Budget for 2022 and sent it for consideration to the Mejlis.

Priority issues related to the intensification of cooperation between Turkmenistan and the World Trade Organization were considered during an online meeting of the government commission to study issues related to accession to the WTO, the website of the Foreign Ministry of Turkmenistan reports.

President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, having spoken at the second UN Global Conference on Sustainable Transport, proposed to return to the proposal put forward by Turkmenistan earlier on the development of a UN Special Interregional Program for the Development of Transport.

The Kenar enterprise for the storage and shipment of petroleum products from the Turkmenbashi complex of oil refineries has shipped 3 million tons of various petroleum products to consumers over the past period of 2021.

Secretary General of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Mohammed Sanusi Barkindo will speak online at the XXVI International Conference «Oil and Gas of Turkmenistan», which will be held in a hybrid format on October 27-28 in Ashgabat.

Opportunities for further strengthening mutually beneficial Turkmen-Indian cooperation were discussed during the talks between Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov and his Indian counterpart Subrahmaniyam Jaishankar, held within the framework of the 6th meeting of foreign ministers of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) in Nur-Sultan.

New proposals for the development of oil and gas fields in the Turkmen sector of the Caspian Sea were presented yesterday at a meeting with President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov by the head of the ARETI International Group of Companies Igor Makarov.

The products manufactured at the polymer gas chemical complex in Kiyanly have become the main raw material for the production of polypropylene threads, which has recently been mastered by the employees of the Economic Society “Bagtyýar gurluşyk”.

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

On October 9, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov paid a working visit to the United Arab Emirates to participate in the opening ceremony of the National Day of Turkmenistan at the EXPO 2020 World Exhibition, which is taking place in Dubai, the website of the Foreign Ministry of Turkmenistan reported.