Ashgabat will on June 5-8 host events dedicated to environmental protection and regulations on water use, the Neutral Turkmenistan newspaper reported May 27.

Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov has decreed to appoint Shamyrat Meretliyev as chairman of Turkmenhimiya (Turkmen Chemicals) State Concern.

The 49th session of the Ad Hoc Working Group for development of a convention on the Caspian Sea’s legal status is scheduled to be held June 1-2 in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, the Turkmen government said in a message May 27.

Russian-Turkmen relations are of a strategic nature, Chairperson of the Federation Council (upper house) of Russia’s Federal Assembly Valentina Matviyenko said at a meeting with Chairman of the Turkmen Parliamentary Committee on Legislation and its Norms Serdar Berdimuhamedov, said the press release of the Russian Federation Council.

A business forum organized by the chambers of commerce and industry of Turkmenistan and Belarus has been held in Ashgabat, the Embassy of Belarus in Turkmenistan said in a message May 26.

At the upcoming Energy Charter Forum, which will be held in Ashgabat on May 30-31, the issues of developing a multilateral framework agreement on transit of energy resources will be discussed in detail, the Turkmen Dovlet Habarlary state news agency reports, citing General Council at the Energy Charter Secretariat Alejandro Carballo Leyda.

Ashgabat hosted a meeting with UK’s Permanent Under Secretary and Head of the Diplomatic Service at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Sir Simon McDonald, the Turkmen Foreign Ministry said in a message.

Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev will visit Turkmenistan on May 19-20 at the invitation of his Turkmen counterpart Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, the Uzbek national news agency (UzA) reported May 18.

Constitution Day in Turkmenistan is widely and solemnly celebrated May 18.

Agricultural damage in Iran hit 12 trillion rials (close to $370 million) in last fiscal year (which ended March 20), according to Vice President of Iran’s Keshavarzi Bank (agriculture bank) Mohammad Ebrahim Hassannejad.