International conference “Tourism - the ambassador of peace and a basis of relations” was opened in Mary and collected experts of the travel and rest industry from about 20 countries of different continents. These are the USA, Japan, China, Spain, France, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Romania, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Turkey, Pakistan, Iran, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, etc.

Football players of national team of Turkmenistan made a draw 1:1 with the team of Iran within the framework of elimination game of the World Championship - 2018.

A regular meeting of the Central Commission for Elections and Referenda of Turkmenistan focused on the preparations for the upcoming elections to Gengesh and Mejlis in two electoral districts: the electoral district Gunesh 7 and the electoral district Dostluk 8 in Ashgabat – newly elected members will replace the retired parliamentarians.

Ashgabat hosted a two-day regional seminar on the legal and practical aspects of patent protection of pharmaceutical products. The forum was organized by the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry of Turkmenistan, the World Intellectual Property Organisation and the Eurasian Patent Organisation. Representatives of the Swiss Confederation, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Belarus, Ukraine, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Republic of Uzbekistan, the Republic of Tajikistan, etc. participated in the forum.

The project on construction of the gas chemical plant in Kiyanly village on the Caspian Coast received a special award from the Trade & Export Finance (TXF), the United Kingdom as one of the ten top projects funded by export credit agencies in Europe and Eurasia in 2014. This decision was adopted during a meeting of representatives of authoritative international financial and insurance organizations and journalists in Paris in early June.

President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov expressed his deep condolences to President of Georgia Giorgi Margvelashvili for numerous casualties and destructions caused by heavy rains and flooding in Tbilisi.

On June 13, the Turkmen capital hosted the talks between President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov and Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon who had arrived in our country on an official visit the day before.

It was held a regular graduation of students of the higher educational establishments of military and law-enforcement agencies of the country – the Military Institute and Institute of the Navy of the Ministry of Defense of Turkmenistan, Frontier Institute, Institute of National Security and Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the country. Major solemnities on the occasion of this event have been organized on the square before the capital’s Monument of Constitution.

President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov signed a Decree “On acceptance to the citizenship of Turkmenistan”, having admitted to the citizenship of Turkmenistan 361 persons, residing permanently on the territory of Turkmenistan and having no citizenship.

On June 12, President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov paid a working visit to Azerbaijan to participate in the official ceremony of opening of the I European Games “Baku- 2015”. In the airport of Baku, the official dignitaries of the Azerbaijan Republic, as well as representatives of the I European Games Steering Committee, welcomed the Turkmen leader.