Following the negotiations at the highest level on January 6, 2023, a signing ceremony of a solid package of bilateral documents was held in Beijing. President Serdar Berdimuhamedov and Chinese President Xi Jinping signed the Joint Statement of Turkmenistan and the People's Republic of China. In the presence of the heads of the two friendly states, a number of other important documents were signed, aimed to bring the traditional Turkmen-Chinese partnership to a qualitatively new level that...

On January 5-6, 2023, the state visit of the President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov to the People's Republic of China took place. It should be noted that this is the first foreign visit of the head of state this year, which coincided with the significant date marked on January 6 - the 31st anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Turkmenistan and China. On January 5, the presidential airplane arrived at the Beijing Capital International Airport, where offic...

On December 26, 2022, President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov left for a working visit to the Russian Federation, where he took part in the informal Summit of the leaders of the CIS countries, traditionally held annually in St. Petersburg at the end of the outgoing year. Officials saw the head of state off at the Ashgabat International Airport. A few hours later, the presidential airliner landed at Pulkovo International Airport in St. Petersburg, where President Serdar Berdimuhamedov...

On December 24, 2022, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan Yoshimasa Hayashi. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, expressing gratitude to the head of the Japanese Foreign Ministry for the initiative to organize the current meeting of the "CA-Japan" Dialogue, especially noted the timeliness of the meeting and congratulated his colleague on the successful holding of the 9th Meeting of Foreign Ministers of t...

On December 24, 2022, the 9th Meeting of Foreign Ministers of the countries participating in the Dialogue "Central Asia + Japan" was held in Tokyo. The meeting was attended by the heads of Foreign ministries of Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, the ambassadors of these countries accredited in Japan, representatives of local and foreign media. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan, as well as the heads of delegations of the Central Asian countries, deli...

On December 23, 2022, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Central Asian states met with the Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the countries of Central Asia and Japan, Taro Aso, in the Parliament of Japan. During the meeting, it was noted that inter-parliamentary relations are one of the key areas for expanding partnership between Central Asia and Japan. At the same time, a striking example of active inter-parliamentary cooperation is regular contacts and meetings of parliamentary...

On December 23, 2022, in the morning, a delegation of Turkmenistan visited the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), where they met with the president of the agency, Akihiko Tanaka. During the meeting, the importance of training programs in the functioning of JICA was noted, which provide partner countries with the opportunity to acquire practical knowledge based on Japanese experience. The effectiveness of JICA trainings in various areas, such as economics and finance, education, en...