Turkmenistan plans to establish regular air service with Tajikistan in the near future. The flights will be carried out under the bilateral agreements. A Turkmen delegation took off to Dushanbe where it would hold talks in the framework of the agreements on expanding bilateral cooperation. Officials of Turkmenistan Airlines (national carrier) and Turkmenistan Airline OJSC…
President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, noting that the system of benefits in the country has become completely ineffective, instructed to prepare proposals for cancellation of all benefits. Berdymukhamedov was addressing a meeting with the leadership of the Turkmen banking and financial sectors. “Benefits should be provided not to anybody, but only to those who really…
The Turkmen Economy and Development Ministry will hold an auction for the sale of state facilities on June 27. Industrial complex, shopping centers, carpet shop, textile factories, dairy farming enterprises, livestock farms are among the facilities to be put up for auction. The citizens of Turkmenistan and foreign countries, as well as private legal entities…
Turkmenistan’s GDP growth rate was 6.3% in January-May, Bashim Khojamamedov, deputy prime minister for economy and finances, said at a government meeting on June 3. The growth rate was 2.9% in industrial sector, 4.1% in construction, 10.8% in transportation and communication sector, 9.5% in trade, 3.6% in agriculture, and 10.2% in the sphere of services,…
Turkmenistan will start wheat-harvesting campaign in the Ahal, Balkan, Lebap and Mary provinces on June 7 and in the Dashoguz province on June 14, the country’s Agriculture Ministry reported on June 3. It is planned to harvest 1.6 million tons of wheat in 2017. Turkmenistan harvested 1.6 million tons of wheat in 2016. The country…
Development of transportation infrastructure of Turkmenistan’s regions is an important component of the country’s large projects. This developmental activity is aimed at involving the regions in economic, trade, and humanitarian cooperation, increasing investment potential, promoting entrepreneurship in rural areas, and industrial integration, according to the report. Central Asia is becoming one of the world’s most…
Uzbekistan’s state power company Uzbekenergo and Turkmenistan’s Ministry of Energy signed a memorandum envisioning cooperation in the transit of electricity from Turkmenistan to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan through Uzbekistan’s power grid. The memorandum was signed during Uzbek president’s working visit to Turkmenistan. Under the terms of the memorandum, Turkmenistan will deliver electricity to Uzbekistan in exchange…