Vice Premier, head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, R.Meredov, reported on preparations for this event at the Government session.

The Programme of the President of Turkmenistan on Social and Economic Development of the Country in 2018 – 2024 is important document, which implementation is to support the steadfast progress of the Motherland and improvement of Turkmenistan citizens. Speaking at the last session of the Council of the Elders, Leader of the Nation Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov outlines key vectors of this Programme that stipulates the complex of measures in industrialization, diversification and increase of the export potential of national economy, opening of new facilities for production of import substitutive goods and intensification of the market relations.

The 6th Turkmen-Russian Economic forum took place in the conference hall in the Archabil Hotel. The delegation of the Russian Federation, including the representatives of a number of state agencies and organisations, as well as the companies, working in the spheres of trade, food industry, construction, electronic information technology, mechanic engineering, oil and gas among others arrived in Ashgabat to participate in the forum.

Past week at the auctions of the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan 88 transactions were registered.

Turkmenistan is planning to protect architectural projects from the plagiary. President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov gave relative instructions at the session of the Cabinet of Ministers.

Delayed coker unit will be installed at the Turkmenbashi Complex of Oil Refineries. The results of the international tender for its construction have been announced at the Government session by the Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Minister in charge of fuel and energy complex, M.Babayev.

Turkmen capital hosted the meeting of the working groups of the VII Regional Economic Cooperation Conference of Afghanistan (RECCA VII), which forestalled the ministry session of Ashgabat forum on the next day that is to support further consolidation of joint efforts for the development of coordinated approaches to the solution of actual issues of Afghan range of problems and generally, to the promotion of economic integration in regional and international scale.

As part of the Seventh Regional Economic Conference on Afghanistan (RECCA VII) Ashgabat has hosted a business forum, which served as a meeting ground for representatives of state-run institutions and business communities from a number of countries of the region, authoritative international organizations, and the media.

Past week at the auctions of the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan 62 transactions were registered.

Delegation of Turkmenistan was in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with a working visit. Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers, M.Babayev, presented his report on the results of the visit at the Government session.