Turkmenistan: news

11.10.2019. The Oguzkent Hotel of tturkemn capital hosted the session of the Council of the Heads of States of the Commonwealth of Independent States chaired by President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov.
President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, President of the Kyrgyz Republic Sooronbai Jeenbekov, President of the Republic of Moldova Igor Dodon, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, President of the Republic of Tajikistan Emomali Rakhmon, President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev arrived in Ashgabat for participation in the session, which turkemnistan held as a country chairing the CIS this year. The Republic of Armenia is represented by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.
As it was informed before the meeting, on October 10, the President of Turkmenistan held bilateral meetings with the Presidents of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Republic of Moldova and the Republic of Uzbekistan, and Chairman of the Executive Committee – the CIS Executive Secretary Sergey Lebedev.
Prior to the Forum, the President of Turkmenistan had bilateral meetings with the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia, the Presidents of the Republic of Tajikistan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus.

10.10.2019. Turkmen capital hosted the session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Commonwealth of Independent States, which was a final stage of preparation to the Council of the Heads of the CIS states on October 11.
Heads of foreign departments of the CIS countries – the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Moldova, Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan and the Republic of Uzbekistan, have come to Ashgabat on the day before.
Delegation of the CIS Executive Committee was led by the Chairman, Executive Secretary of the Commonwealth of Independent States Sergey Lebedev.
The Council of the CIS Foreign Ministers is an executive authority of this structure, which coordinates foreign activity of members states including their work in international organizations, consults on the issues of the world politics, which present common interest, based on the decisions of the Council of the Heads of the States and the Council of the Heads of the Governments.

Ashgabat will host the meetings of the Council of Foreign Ministers and the Council of Heads of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries on October 10-11, in the framework of Turkmenistan’s chairmanship in the CIS in 2019.
Turkmenistan’s chairmanship in the organization was announced at the past meeting of the CIS Heads of State in Dushanbe in September last year. The date of the next meeting of the CIS Heads of state was agreed at that meeting.
Following the decision of the CIS, the President of Turkmenistan took part in an informal meeting of the CIS Leaders held in the city of St. Petersburg of the Russian Federation on December 6, 2018.
Exhibition in honor of Turkmenistan’s assumption of the CIS presidency opened on January 29 in the building of the Commonwealth Executive Committee in Minsk, in which the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Turkmenistan to Belarus Nazarguly Shagulyyev took part. On the same day, a meeting of the CIS representatives took place under the chairmanship of Turkmenistan.

The growth of the gross domestic product (GDP) of Turkmenistan in January-September 2019 was 6,3 percent. According to the results of the analysis of indicators for the country’s ministries and departments, the volume of production for January-September, compared to the same period in 2018, increased by 6,9 percent.
Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan Myradov made the remarks during his briefing at the expanded meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan on Friday.
According to the results of nine months, growth was also ensured in the private sector of the economy, the share of which in the structure of GDP amounted to 65,7 percent. The volume of retail trade turnover for the reporting period, compared with the same period last year, increased by 19,1 percent. Foreign trade also showed positive dynamics as it increased by 2,8 percent.