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.

33 transactions were concluded at the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan last week.

The opening ceremony of the international carpet exhibition took place in Ashgabat on the eve of Turkmen Carpet Day. The organizers of the large-scale forum are the Turkmenhaly State Association and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Turkmenistan.

Construction started of a new kindergarten in the village of Chishmikioy, Vulkanesht district, Gagauz Autonomous Region of the Republic of Moldova. The idea of the project was proposed by the Turkmen leader in 2013, in the course of his official visit to Kishinev.

Last week, the Turkmen capital hosted the fourth meeting of the joint intergovernmental Turkmen–Ukraine Committee for economic, cultural and humanitarian cooperation. To participate in the meeting, a representative Ukrainian delegation led by vice-premier, minster of regional development, construction and housing and communal service of Ukraine Gennady Zubko came to Ashgabat.

XIV International Universal Exhibition “White city – Ashgabat” opened in the Sergi Koşgi Expo Centre in the Turkmen capital. The forum brought together over 130 companies and enterprises, including 40 foreign ones.