The 5th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games will be watched and listened to throughout the world. Turkmenistan is preparing for a large-scale sporting event to be held at high level this autumn. A great deal of work is underway to expand the information and telecommunications networks which will improve the quality of communications and broadcasting.

Today, a youth awareness raising event has been organized in the capital under the motto “A healthy society - the powerful state”, based on such themes as a healthy way of life and struggle against drugs and illicit trafficking in narcotic drugs across the world which is the global problem of mankind. A meeting has been organized by the Central Council of the Youth Organization of Turkmenistan named after Mahtumkuli.

Today President Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov signed a number of Decrees to appoint the heads of several ministries and agencies:

A telephone conversation was held between President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov and President of the Republic of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon.

On March 1, President Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov is going on a working visit to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, whose capital, the city of Islamabad, is to host the 13th Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) Summit.

The agenda of the working session included the main directions of social and economic development of the country.

The agenda of working meeting with the participation of heads of the shopping complex and business structures included issues, regarding the fulfilment of President Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov’s instructions and orientations, the execution of sectoral programs. Among them – production expansion of domestic goods, exported abroad, and extension of foreign economic relations with all interested foreign partners.

The issues of the development of railway branch, construction of Turkmenbashy International Sea Port, modernization of television, radio, digital broadcasting and communication network were discussed during the working session for further modernization and improvement of transport and communication sphere of Turkmenistan

In the course of the working meeting on the agricultural complex problems, its participants’ attention was focused on the requirements of President Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov to strengthen radical reforms, implemented in AIC.

The heads of financial-economic subdivisions of Turkmenistan discussed the progress and efficiency of structural adjustment in the departmental unit, improvement of management quality, modernization of banking, fiscal systems and others. In the working meeting according this sector, it was identified a number of measures to promote stable, balanced development of the national economy sectors under market conditions to attract investment.