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

I would like to offer my congratulations to you on the official opening of a Culture Week in Akhal velayat and wish you good health, family wellbeing, every success in your work, President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov said in his Welcoming Address to the event participants.

Solemn opening of the Culture Week took place in Ahal valley, in the building of Nowruz ýaýlasynyň ak öýi. This large-scale campaign is held annually in different regions of the country as a showcase of the vibrant and diverse local culture.

Balkan velayat, where the harvesting operations started on June 13, has already harvested more than 33,500 tons of wheat on over a third of the total farmland planted to the crop. With the total area under wheat in the region reaching 57,000 hectares, this year local grain producers are aiming to achieve a production target of 120,000 tons.

President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, who arrived in Lebap Velayat on a working visit, attended the ceremony of laying the foundation of a residential area and the opening ceremony of a microdistrict, erected in the administrative centre of the eastern region of the country.

Under started working visit to Lebap Velayat, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov held the session in Ruhiyet Palace of Turkmenabat dedicated to the development of sports in our country. In particular, the measures for preparation of International rally “Amul – Hazar 2018 have been discussed.

XIII Forum of scientific and creative intelligentsia of the CIS states that brought together the delegates of Armenia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russian federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan has completed its work in the capital of Kazakhstan. It included prominent scientific, cultural, education executives. Heads of the ministries and departments of the Commonwealth states, representatives of interstate structures, international organizations and non-governmental associations.

During the visit to the capital of Tajikistan where he arrived for the participation in forum “Water for Sustainable Development”, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov had a meeting with President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Mamnun Hussein.

The International conference “Partnership to finance development in the heart of the Great Silk Road” organized by State Bank for Foreign Economic Affairs of Turkmenistan and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan took place in the Yyldyz Hotel in Ashgabat.

The two-thirds of the cultivated crop have been harvested in the region as of June 20. More than 300,000 tons of wheat have been delivered to the receiving points of the Fatherland. The daily increase of threshed grain makes up 5,850 tons.