V Asian indoor and martial arts games"" have become the best in the history of these continental competitions!"" So was described Games ""Ashgabat 2017"" by the world media. Sports battles in the arenas of the Olympic town were covered by more than 500 journalists from 82 countries.

The 72nd session of the UN General Assembly has started the work at the Headquarter of the United Nations Organization where the delegation of our country will give utterance to priority positions and new initiatives of Turkmenistan related to the most important aspects of cooperation under the UN and other competent international organizations.

One week has left until the beginning of the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games. It attracts thousands guests and fans to Turkmenistan, as well as increased attention of the world mass media that covers the international events of such scale.

Regular 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly is to start work in a few weeks. According to the tradition on occasion of this important event of international life, Turkmenistan will promulgate Priority Positions, which our country will carry out and uphold during coming political season.

In the strategy of diversification and complex modernisation of economy of Turkmenistan the textile complex occupies one of the leading places, having a powerful industrial infrastructure and a raw-material basis.

Turkmenistan holds the world’s fourth proven natural gas reserves, today it ranks among the main suppliers of “blue-sky fuel” in the Central Asian region. Due to its favorable geopolitical position and rich deposits of hydrocarbons, our country has a huge potential for increasing gas export to various destinations, including European and Asian markets.

Large-scale construction expanded in the regions and the capital is an important indicator of rapid development of national economy of the country. At present moment, there are 1900 large facilities under construction, where 1800 are being built by domestic enterprises. The plan for total volume of production, works and services is executed for 112.6 percent by the ministry of Industry for six months of this year.

Huge potential of the chemical industry is based on colossal natural resources. This sector of industrial production takes leading positions in the process of transferring the national economy to the non-primary development path, the formation of new industries, increasing the output of diverse and competitive products: to meet domestic needs and export-oriented, widely in demand in foreign markets.

Having steadily implementing foreign policy course, Turkmenistan holds active position in the development of balanced solutions of topical issues of today. Constructive initiatives of the Head of the State aimed at creation of the conditions for sustainable development and prosperity are widely supported by the world’s community. This is indicated by the publications in foreign press.

In the running year’s six months, freight and passenger services rendered in the transport-communications sector of Turkmenistan totaled 2 billion 336 million manats. This clearly reflects growth targets in the context of building a highly efficient transport system aimed to meet the demand for the services, enhance their safety and quality, create investment opportunities, and raise competitive advantage of local freight and passenger carriers in the home and foreign transport services market.