Askhat Oazbay has been appointed new Kazakh ambassador to Turkmenistan. Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev signed a decree to this effect, Interfax reports quoting the press service of the Kazakh president.

Turkmenistan's law-enforcement agencies have uncovered and eliminated a criminal group involved in drug trafficking. In the course of the operation to detain criminals, a large amount of narcotics and firearms as well as a large sum of cash money in Turkmen manats and US dollars and also numerous golden items have been seized, the Turkmenistan.ru correspondent reports quoting the Turkmen State Agency for Combating Drugs.

Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov has signed the decree "On transferring servicemen, who completed their compulsory service, to the reserve from the Armed Forces and other forces of Turkmenistan, and on the regular call up of Turkmen citizens to military service."

Celebrations were held in Turkmenistan on 13 September to mark inauguration of a number of social-economic facilities in Esenguly district of Balkan province. The construction of facilities started in spring 2007 as part of the project on development of the social-economic infrastructure of this remote place of the Caspian region.