Today, the President of Turkmenistan, the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the country, Army General Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov held an expanded session of the State Security Council to sum up the activities of the country’s military and law enforcement agencies for 2021 and determine priority tasks for the power structures for the near future.

President of Turkmenistan, Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, in accordance with Articles 54, 56 and 72 of the Law of Turkmenistan “On Court”, have issued decrees to:

 By the Decree of the President of Turkmenistan, the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Turkmenistan, Police Lieutenant Colonel Babagulyev Myrat Babagulyevich was relieved of the post of Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs.

In his New Year message to the Turkmen people, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov noted that all conditions are created in our independent country for development of culture, literature and art and a large-scale work is carried out to preserve, enrich and popularize the national heritage and congratulated our compatriots with inclusion of the nomination “Dutar making craftsmanship and traditional music performing art combined with singing” into the UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural Heritage.

Today, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov has received the newly appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to Turkmenistan Ms. Lucia Wilde, who handed the head of the state her credentials.

Today, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov held the first working meeting via the digital system in the new year, 2022, held under the motto “The Epoch of the People with Arkadag”, which was attended by some Cabinet Deputy Chairmen, the Minister of Education, as well as the khyakims of the velayats and the capital.

President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov sent deep condolences to the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kasym-Zhomart Tokayev and the people of Kazakhstan in connection with the numerous human casualties and injuries as a result of the tragic events of recent days.

47 transactions were registered at the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan last week.

Against the background of the past week’s panorama of events, it is well worth putting spotlight on the regularity and consistency of the strides undertaken by our country to realize the initiated by the leader of nation Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov science-based strategic programs of the national economy complex fast-track development, which are the strong basics of the country’s next forward breakthrough toward new achievements and heights of the epoch of power and happiness of the Turkmen state.

The Turkmen delegation made a working trip to the city of Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran, on January 8-9, where they held meetings with a view to further developing bilateral relations following the instructions of President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov.