By the request of President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, Chairperson of the Mejlis A. Nurberdiyeva received the copies of the credentials of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ireland to Turkmenistan Adrian McDade.

Having congratulating on the 21st anniversary of the adoption of the status of permanently neutral state to Turkmenistan by the United Nations General Assembly, the Head of the Mejlis and Deputy Chairpersons of the Cabinet of Ministers, leaders of military and law enforcement agencies wished strong health, happiness, longevity and grandiose successes to the Head of the State on the way of large-scale transformation programmes of combined development initiated by him.

President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov expressed his deepest condolences to President of the Turkish Republic Recep Tayyip Erdogan for multiple deaths and injuries in the terrorist attack in Istanbul.

On December 10, the assembly-hall of the Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted an international scientific-practical conference - “Neutrality of Turkmenistan and international practice: new advances of cooperation for the sake of sustainable development”.

On December 9, President Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov convened an enlarged session of the Cabinet of Ministers to draw together conclusions from the 11-month work of the government and sectoral industries, analyze the implementation progress of the national socio-economic programs, discuss the important issues of state life, and outline the concrete tasks for the immediate future.

President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov send deep condolences to President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Mamnum Hussein and Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Muhammad Navaz Sharif on occasion of crash of the aircraft of Pakistan International Airlines led to the numerous victims of the citizens of the country.

President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov sent a message of deep condolences to President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Mamnoon Hussain and Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Muhammad Nawaz Sharif in connection with the crash of the airliner of International Airlines of Pakistan, which entailed numerous human losses.

On December 7, President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov received Vice-President of the «General Electric» company, President and Chief Executive Director of the company in Russia and the CIS countries Ronald J. Pollett.

Having expressed sincere gratitude for spared time, the guest conveyed warm greetings of President of Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister of Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev to the Head of the State, Grigory Karasin mentioned that Russia highly appreciates traditionally friendly relations with Turkmenistan and pays great attention to the development of long-term partnership.

Telephone conversation was held between the Presidents of Turkmenistan and the republic of Uzbekistan. Having warmly greeted each other, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and Shavkat Mirziyoyev stated with delight high level and constructive character of interstate Turkmen – Uzbek dialog, which is successfully developed in bilateral and multilateral formats under competent regional and international organization and structures.