President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov chaired a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers, during which the key issues of the domestic policy were discussed. Before opening the meeting, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov congratulated the participants and the people of Turkmenistan on the beginning of the holy month of Oraza. The Deputy Chairmen of the Cabinet of Ministers presented the reports on the current situation in the sectors under their supervision. The information on the outcomes of the meeting with the representatives of the Islamic Development Bank, held on May 18-23 in Ashgabat, which focused on the possibility for involving the IBD in financing 8 projects in our country in the transport sector and in support of small and medium-sized businesses in 2016-2018, was presented. The projects include the modernisation of Madav-Esenguly and Mary-Serhetabat highways, the construction of the section of Atamyrat-Ymamnazar-Akina railway, the airports in the towns of Atamyrat and Garabogaz and an oil tanker, a passenger vessel and two tugboats. The IBD is expected to finance the construction of a fibre optic line which will stretch from Turkmenbashi to Baku and the improvement of access to the Internet. In this regard, it is planned to develop the action programme between the Government of Turkmenistan and the Islamic Development Bank for 2016-2018. The President approved the proposals presented for consideration and gave specific instructions on the development of the programme of the Islamic Development Bank for Turkmenistan for 2016-2018. The report on the accession of the National Barcode Organisation of Turkmenistan to the international organisation GS1 was presented. 111 GS1 Member Organisations unanimously voted for Turkmenistan’s accession at the GS1 General Assembly, which took place in Sydney. The products manufactured in our country will henceforth have the barcode that starts with the number 483. The information on the results of the business trip of the Turkmen delegation to Berlin, where the prospects for cooperation in the trade, economic, oil and gas, energy, transit transport and other sectors had been discussed during the business forum, was presented. Particular attention was paid to the possibilities for implementing joint high-tech projects in various fields. In accordance with the Programme of Cooperation between the Ministry of Education of Turkmenistan and the Ministry of Education, Research, Youth and Sport of Romania for 2012-2017, 25 young people from Turkmenistan will study at institutions of higher education in Romania in the 2015-2016 academic years. The admission commission, which will receive the documents from applicants willing to study at universities in Romania, will work at Magtumguly Turkmen State University from June 23 to July 2. Entrance examinations will be held in the format of tests on school subjects and interviews on the history of Turkmenistan from 6 to 8 July. Training will be carried out in a number of specialties which are in high demand in the oil and gas, construction, transport and communication, financial and economic, agricultural and other sectors. The report on the measures taken by the Ministry of Communications to expand access to the high speed Internet for users in our country was presented. In accordance with contracts of the Ministry of Communications, fibre optic communications systems had been connected on lease towards Kazakhstan, Great Britain, Russia and Turkey. Specialists of the Ministry developed the project for the Internet stream on lease towards the Islamic Republic of Iran, which will allow increasing Internet connection speed and modernizing national fibre backbones. The information on the measures taken to modernize the spinning and sewing departments at the Turkmenbashi textile complex, the denim complex and a number of textile enterprises throughout the country, which had made it possible to increase production capacity of Turkmenistan’s textile industry and improve the quality of textile products, was presented. It was noted that a wide range of domestically manufactured textile goods were sold at affordable prices at 30 chain stores throughout the country. With the opening of a number of chain stores at the shopping centres in the regions and several sales outlets in farmers associations and villages, sales of textile goods on the domestic market will rise 5 times. High quality domestically manufactured textile products are also supplied to social institutions. The report on the progress of the on-going harvest campaign in the regions throughout the country was presented. The pace of agricultural activities is accelerated with every passing day; agricultural workers are currently involved in storing hey, fallowing, sowing intermediate crops, taking care of cotton fields, applying mineral fertilizers and irrigating. The Turkmen leader signed the Resolution on the construction of the building complex of the Training Centre of the Turkmengaz State Concern in Ashgabat. The President approved the proposal to draft the State Programme for the protection of intangible cultural heritage for 2015-2020. President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov noted that according to the report on the results of the inspection conducted the Supreme Chamber of Inspection electricity was not supplied properly to apartment houses and enterprises in Ashgabat. The poor level of preparation for the summer season leads to the regular failure of power supply systems and transformers. In this regard, the President severely reprimanded Ashgabat Hyakim R. Nurmammedov and Minister of Energy G. Saryev for the improper performance of the official duties and the shortcomings in the work, noting that if they failed to eliminate the shortcomings as soon as possible, they would be dismissed from their posts. Other issues were considered and the decisions were adopted during the government meeting.