Mekan Ishangulyev was appointed as an ambassador of Turkmenistan to Azerbaijan. The corresponding documents were signed by President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov at a government meeting. So, according to the decree of the Head of the state Mekan Ishangulyev was dismissed from the post of the consul of Turkmenistan in the Russian Federation (Astrakhan) in connection with the transfer to another job. By Ukases of the President of the country he has been given the diplomatic rank of Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador and he also was appointed Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Turkmenistan in the Republic of Azerbaijan (Baku city).