President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov has received President of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of the Republic of Turkey Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu.

Agricultural Complex of the capital held the conference where the matters of further development of water sphere of the country have been discussed. Hyakims of the velayats, deputies of the Mejlis, heads and leading specialists of agricultural complex, number of ministries and departments, State Commercial Bank Dayhanbank as well as representatives of the Academy of Sciences, personnel of water management, professors and lecturers of profile universities, personnel of scientific and research institutes took part in the meeting.

On February 13, the national boxing championship will start in Ashgabat. As organizers of competitions the Federation of Boxing of Turkmenistan, the Ministry of Sports and the Youth Policy and also the Ministry of Trade and Foreign Economic Relations act.

President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov expressed his condolences to President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev over the crash of «An-148» passenger plane, which entailed numerous human losses.

President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov signed the Resolution, authorizing the Turkmenneft State Concern to sign the contract with Mawy Kenar Joint Enterprise on cleaning up land based oil spills in Balkan Velayat.

Regular issue of Construction and Architecture magazine presenting new projects and tendencies of national urban construction and highlighting professional subjects of project planning, engineering and construction technologies, seismic safety of the facilities and landscape design has been released.

At the session of the Cabinet of Ministers on February 9, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov highlighted the historical importance of new findings discovered by the scientists in Dankanakan Fortress in Mary Velayat. Archaeological excavations at this medieval monuments, which is located 30 kilometres west of Mary, are carried out under the work on study of historical and cultural heritage of the Great Silk Road.

President of Turkmenistan, Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, General of the Army Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov visited the temporary military training area of the air defense forces and inspected the technological infrastructure and potential of the air forces.

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

Days of Culture of the Islamic Republic of Iran were closed in the capital. The final event of the celebrations was a concert of art masters of the two countries at the National Music and Drama Theater named after Makhtumkuli.