The Executive Committee of the 5th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games announced that Dragon Oil (Turkmenistan) Ltd. joined the Games «Ashgabat- 2017"" as the official partner.

Two-day training, organized by the OSCE Center in Turkmenistan with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of our country has begun its work in the capital hotel ""Yildyz"".

In the running year’s six months, freight and passenger services rendered in the transport-communications sector of Turkmenistan totaled 2 billion 336 million manats. This clearly reflects growth targets in the context of building a highly efficient transport system aimed to meet the demand for the services, enhance their safety and quality, create investment opportunities, and raise competitive advantage of local freight and passenger carriers in the home and foreign transport services market.

Key role in improvement of production potential of the country, transit of the economy to innovative development diversification of industrial sector by stimulating of new directions is given to the State and private partnership. Targeted selection of such “points of growth” according to economic strategy developed by President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov is represented by the process of formation of investment portfolio including the most promising projects, in other words, those, which were tested and found to be ready for quality assurance and analysis from the investments and business plan points of view.

The capital holds 5-day training course “Marine Spatial Planning” organized by International Ocean Institute (IOI) and the State Office of the Caspian Sea Affairs under the President of Turkmenistan.

In the United Nations Organization representative office in Ashgabat the round table meeting devoted to realisation of the «national action plan for human rights in Turkmenistan for 2016-2020» took place. Representatives of the United National Development Program (UNDP) and members of a working group of the interdepartmental commission for maintenance of fulfilment of international obligations of Turkmenistan took part in it in the field of human rights and international humanitarian right.

Galla Bayramy, a holiday based on primordial traditions of reverence of bread as a symbol of prosperity, is traditionally observed on the third Sunday of July in Turkmenistan.

At the construction site in the city of Garabogaz (Balkan velayat) plant for the production of carbamide has entered a phased start-up and adjustment work

Air transport is one of the most dynamically developing modes of transport, whose importance grows with the increase in the structure of world trade of the proportion of ready and expensive products.

Export of Turkmenistan in January-May 2017 compared to the same period in 2016 has increased by 1.3 percent.