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.

Construction of the Turkmen section (214 kilometers) of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline is being carried out according to the schedule, the Neutral Turkmenistan newspaper reported.

The next meeting of the joint Turkmenistan-Germany working group will be held May 11 in Ashgabat, the Turkmen government said in a message.

Germany intends to do its utmost to develop relations with Turkmenistan, said German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in his letter to Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov.

The foreign ministries of Turkmenistan and the Argentine Republic held political consultations in Ashgabat, the press service of the Turkmen Foreign Ministry reported.

Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov received Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Energy, Industry and Mineral Resources Khalid Abdulaziz Al-Falih, said the Turkmen government in a message.

Ashgabat is hosting the next meeting of authorized representatives of Caspian littoral states, the Turkmen Foreign Ministry said in a message Apr. 25.