Last week, in Ashgabat, a regular meeting of Turkmenistan’s Central Commission for Elections and Referendums (CEC) was held devoted to the upcoming Gengeshi and Mejlis elections in the two constituencies - #7 “Gunesh” and #8 “Dostlukk” of Ashgabat city (to substitute the quitted parliamentarians).

The national organization on bar coding is admitted as a member of International organization ""GSI"", home production is assigned with corresponding bar code. This decision was accepted unanimously by 111 member-countries at the session of General assembly of ""GSI"" International organization in Sydney (Australia). Production made in our country will be marked with bar code beginning with numbers 483.

Last week, 53 transactions were registered at the State Commodities and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan.

The project on construction of the gas chemical plant in Kiyanly village on the Caspian Coast received a special award from the Trade & Export Finance (TXF), the United Kingdom as one of the ten top projects funded by export credit agencies in Europe and Eurasia in 2014. This decision was adopted during a meeting of representatives of authoritative international financial and insurance organizations and journalists in Paris in early June.

Communications satellite “TurkmenAlem52oE” started the broadcasting of programs of the national television and radio channels. From this day, the users of television content are able to use its services, having directed their antennas to 52 degrees of eastern longitude, where Turkmen satellite has been located in orbit in one point of firmament, in more than 35 thousand kilometers over surface of the planet.

43 deals were registered at the last week’s bids at the State Commodities and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan.

Late last week, the Technologies Centre of the Academy of Sciences of Turkmenistan hosted an International conference “Science, engineering and innovative technologies in the epoch of powerand happiness” timed to Science Day widely marked in our country.

Ashgabat hosted a regional seminar devoted to the efficiency of the narcomania prevention national programs. Representatives of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan, as well as a UNODC expert Hanna Heykila (Austria) and the regional coordinator Nadim Rehman (Iran) came to the Turkmen capital to take part in the meeting which was organized by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

Last week’s Turkmen-Swiss business forum in Zurich was aimed at promoting bilateral cooperation, in particular, in the development of trade and economic relations, business contacts, as well as partnership in the scientific-technical field.

The International Textile Industry Exhibition opened at the Exhibition Centre in Ashgabat on occasion of the remarkable date in the national calendar, the Day of Textile Worker of Turkmenistan.