A Turkmen-Russian business forum will be held in Ashgabat from January 19 to 20, during which a joint meeting of business councils is planned.

In Turkmenistan, at the Galkynysh gas field, which is one of the largest in the world in terms of natural gas reserves, well No. 60 was successfully put into operation.

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

Issues of developing cooperation in the fuel and energy sector and building up transport and transit potential were discussed on Monday at a meeting between the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov and the Deputy Foreign Minister of Iran for Economic Diplomacy Mahdi Safari. This is reported by the website of the Foreign Ministry of Turkmenistan.

Turkmenistan and China are working on issues of increasing the volume of gas supplies to China. This was stated by President Serdar Berdimuhamedov during talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing last Friday, State news agency reports.

More than 350 billion cubic meters of natural gas have been supplied to the Celestial Empire through the Turkmenistan-China gas pipeline since the beginning of its operation. President Serdar Berdimuhamedov wrote about this in his article "The Foundation of Strategic Partnership" for the People's Daily newspaper, published on the eve of his visit to China. The article was reprinted last Friday in the Neutral Turkmenistan newspaper.

Under this slogan, a gratitude conference was held at the Central Building of the Oil and Gas Complex of Turkmenistan. It was attended by heads of all branches of the oil and gas complex and representatives of labor collectives.

Turkmenistan and China will intensify cooperation in the gas sector. This is stated in the Joint Statement, which was signed today by Chinese President Xi Jinping and President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov, who is on a state visit to Beijing on January 5-6.

Following the talks between President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov and President of China Xi Jinping, a package of bilateral documents was signed in Beijing, TDH reports today.

On Friday, negotiations began in Beijing between President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov, who arrived in China on a state visit the day before, and President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping, TDH reports.

Issues related to the further improvement of the activities of the oil and gas complex of Turkmenistan were discussed during the first meeting of the government in the New Year, which President Serdar Berdimuhamedov held on a digital system last Wednesday, TDH reports.

The program of the upcoming state visit of the President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov to China provides for the signing of a package of bilateral documents. This was announced by Vice-Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov at a government meeting last Wednesday.

The cultural and sports complex of the Turkmenbashi complex of oil refineries hosted the premiere of the play «The Magic Staff, or the Adventures of a Snowflake» staged by the director of the theater studio Natalya Kuznetsova. This was reported by the newspaper «Neutral Turkmenistan».

At the auction of the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan in the final week of 2022, 16 transactions were registered.

Congratulating compatriots on the New Year, President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov recalled the most important events of the past year, held under the motto «Epoch of people with Arkadag».