Two modern children's summer camps were commissioned on June 1 in Turkmenistan's national tourist zone "Avaza" providing for every condition for full-fledged recreation of children. More than seven hundred children from thirty countries, who arrived in Turkmenistan to participate in the International Festival of Gifted Children, were the first guests of summer camps. From now on, tourists from abroad will be able to leave their children with their peers at a summer camp and choose for themselves any recreation program...

The State Concern "Turkmengaz" will finance the construction of a gas compressor station with the capacity of 30 bcm a year at the gas field "Malay" in Lebap province. This was announced by the Director of the State Agency for the Management and Use of Hydrocarbon Resources Yagshigeldy Kakayev at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan. Yagshigeldy Kakayev is temporarily acting as Vice Premier for oil and gas, chemical industries and fisheries replacing Baymyrat Hodzhamuhammedov owing to the latter's ill health.

President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov will soon pay an official visit the Republic of Belarus at the head of the governmental delegation of Turkmenistan. The preparations and a program of the forthcoming visit were discussed yesterday at a regular meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan.

These December days marked by the historic meetings in the Turkmen land, undoubtedly, have occupied a special place in the global political calendar, particularly in the light the endeavours to build the new architecture of global energy security as well as the high effectiveness of the intergovernmental agreements – both implemented and new, which were reached during the recent visits of President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov, President of the People’s Republic of China Hu Jintao and President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbaev to Turkmenistan.

The year 2009 has been marked with the truly historic landmarks in the successful implementation of Turkmenistan’s energy policy. In the period of the world economic crisis that has adversely affected the economies of the most of the developed countries of the world Turkmenistan abiding confidently by the sustainable development strategy has enhanced its reputation as one of the leaders on the world energy market, expanded energy export routes, strengthened the material and technical base of the fuel and energy sector and ensured a stable increase in the reserves of raw materials and the potential to produce various sources of energy.

The 26th session of the Special Working Group on the Convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea at the level of deputy foreign ministers of the Caspian states wrapped up in Ashgabat on November 5.

President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov will pay an official visit to the Arab Republic of Egypt in 2010. Turkmen Vice Prime Minister, Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Arab Republic of Egypt Ahmed Fathalla held talks at the Turkmen Foreign Ministry on November 5 to discuss issues related to preparations for the visit, the Turkmenistan.ru correspondent reports from Ashgabat.

President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, who was taking part in the 64th session of the UN General Assembly in New York, had a meeting with Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey Recep Tayip Erdogan.