The year 2011 is coming to an end. The year marked by the 20th anniversary of independence of Turkmenistan is rich in a number of important, bright and remarkable events which went down to the history of the country that is moving forward with confidence along the path of constructive endeavours and progress. The events presented in chronological order provide an overview of the ambitious changes taking place in all regions of the Turkmen land, the achievements gained through the progressive changes and large-scale social and economic reforms initiated by President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and laying a firm foundation for prosperity and wellbeing of the Turkmen people.
It should be noted that new building premieres were reported to take place on the first days of the year 2011.
A new cultural centre was put into operation in Gypjak settlement in Ruhabat Etrap in Ahal Velayat, and five social and cultural facilities, including Gengesh administrative building, cultural centre, kindergarten designed for 160 children, shopping centre and health centre with chemist’s shop and emergency station, were opened in Babarab settlement in Ruhabat Etrap. A new bus was presented on behalf of the Turkmen leader to local children. The new medical centre received a resuscitation ambulance supplied with state-of-the-art equipment.
The ceremony of opening the building complex of the Main Department of Civil Defence and Rescue Operations of the Ministry of Defence took place on January 6. President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov attended the ceremony. The complex built on Galkynys Street in accordance with the Resolution of the President of Turkmenistan forms an architectural ensemble with the buildings of the Military Institute and the Ministry of Defence of Turkmenistan. The facades of these buildings together with the Galkynys Square, a symbol of the new historical epoch form the open-ended circle.
During the ceremony the President visited the Emergency Management Centre, where he conducted the first video conference with the velayat subdivisions of the Main Department for Civil Defence and Rescue Operations.
President of Turkmenistan, Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces General of the Army Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov held an enlarged meeting of the State Security Council in the assembly hall of the new building. The meeting agenda focused on the results of the work done in 2010 and priority tasks set to the military and law enforcement agencies.
During the meeting the Turkmen leader signed the Decree establishing the Border Guard Institute and the Resolution approving the Regulations of S. A. Niyazov the Great Military Institute of the Ministry of Defence. General of the Army S. A. Niyazov Police Academy was reorganized in S. A. Niyazov Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
A significant event in the world political calendar was the first official visit of President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso to Turkmenistan which took place on January 14-15.
The talks between President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and the head of the European Commission clearly evidenced that Turkmenistan and EU member states view each other as strategic partners who are determined to intensify and expand the dialogue in all spheres.
In this regard the Turkmen leader noted that the mutual interest and willingness to enhance contacts covering the political, economic and humanitarian aspects of cooperation, the ongoing large-scale reforms in Turkmenistan and EU’s new approaches to partnership with our country laid the firm foundations for effective collaboration.
During the talks priority vectors of Turkmenistan-EU cooperation were identified. In particular, emphasis was put on the need to concert efforts to respond to global threats and challenges of the modern world.
The agenda of the talks Between President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso focused on the prospects for promoting energy cooperation and building new architecture of global energy security.
Emphasizing that Turkmenistan stood ready to enhance the European vector of the energy policy, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov said all requisites for that existed.
The European Union was ready to offer Turkmenistan an integrated market that is predictable and based on the adherence to legal norms and the terms of agreements and contracts, the respect for and balance of interests of parties, said the EC President.
Summarizing the statements made in Ashgabat by EC President Jose Manuel Barroso and President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov regarding the prospects for building a gas pipeline towards Europe, it can be concluded that this project is moving from the stage of negotiations and discussions to the stage of specific decisions and commencement of the work of experts and professionals towards the project implementation. This assessment was given to the talks in the Turkmen capital by the news agencies worldwide, including the EuroNews TV channel that covered this event as the main news of the day.
The possibilities to diversify bilateral cooperation in the fuel and energy sector were the main agenda item of the Turkmen-German Energy Symposium organized by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, the German-Turkmen Forum and the on Eastern European Committee of German Economy. The forum took place in the capital of the Federal Republic of Germany on January 19.
The Turkmen-German working group held the second meeting in Berlin on January 18. The meeting agenda focused on the prospects for promoting mutually advantageous partnership in the trade, economic, transport, communication, scientific and education, agricultural, health, tourism and environmental sectors.
Integrating in the global economic system, Turkmenistan has earned the reputation of being a dynamically developing country with the tremendous economic, resource and humanitarian potential.
This fact was illustrated in the World Economic Situation and Prospects 2011 prepared by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and the five United Nations regional commissions. The UN experts expect the economic growth rate in Turkmenistan in 2011-2012 to be at least 10 percent.
President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov conducted the in-depth analysis of social and economic development of Turkmenistan in 2010 and identified the tasks to be fulfilled in 2011 that is marked by the glorious 20th anniversary of independence of the Motherland during the January 10 enlarged meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers.
These tasks include searching for new line of national development for the sake of the generations to come and promoting the foreign policy that “continues to be the open door policy and enhance peace and stability in the region as consistent with the status of neutrality of Turkmenistan,” emphasizes the Turkmen leader.
The Turkmen leader placed emphasis on the need to work further toward economic diversification, adoption of market mechanisms and development of the financial and banking system in the country. To develop the regulatory framework for privatization, promote private ownership and provide the substantial state support for entrepreneurial activities are the critical tasks to be fulfilled in the coming years.
The measures taken by the Turkmen leader to bring the national science and education sector in line with international standards determined the vector, the main road of development of the Turkmen state in the new historical epoch.
“We consistently implement our reforms laying emphasis on education as the foundation for the development of the economy as well as society,” said President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov speaking during the enlarged government meeting. In this context the Turkmen leader focused on the importance of computer literacy and instructed to provide all educational institutions with computer equipment and Internet access. Also the Presdient instructed to give personal computers to every first former throughout the country.
The computer training courses were incorporated in the curricula of all schools and high educational institutions throughout the country, including the Civil Service Academy. It was a timely measure taken to facilitate introducing the e-government electronic documentation management system. This system is to become a critical step to enhance the efficiency of the work of ministries and departments, institutions and organisations, the public administration sector in general.
The scientific journal Bilim intended to promote the education reform, professional training and national and international practice in this critical sphere was founded in January.
Turkmen science is oriented towards practical results. The President of Turkmenistan approved the programme of research activities to be conducted in 2011-2015 prioritising such spheres as innovative technologies in the agro-industry sector, ecology and efficient resource management; power energy and fuel and efficient use of these resources; chemical technologies and production expansion; construction, architecture and seismology; medicine and pharmaceutical manufacturing; information and telecommunications technologies, economic and humanitarian sciences.
The banking sector development programme for the period of 2010-2030 adopted by the President of Turkmenistan in late January became an important step to promote the ongoing financial and economic reforms and improve the monetary, credit and currency policy.
Private commodity producers play a significant role in promoting the drastic reforms aimed at developing modern market infrastructure in the country.
The putting into operation of new enterprises, including particularly the Keyik glass works, testifies to the growing potential of the private sector. President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov attended the ceremony of opening the enterprise, which manufactures over 20 types of glassware, including glass containers for drinks, juices, mineral waters.
In fact, everything being done in the country to bring it to new heights of progress is viewed through the prism of the social priorities of the Turkmen leader’s policy.
This is evidence by the General Programme for Drinking Water Supply to Settlements of Turkmenistan” that sets forth a number of specific measures devised by specialists of the sectoral ministries and departments, including the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Water Industry, the Ministry of Nature Protection, the Academy of Sciences and velayats khyakimliks, approved in January 2011 to significantly improve water supply to the population.
The scale of construction projects launched throughout the country under the National Programme for the improvement of social and living conditions in villages, settlements, towns in etraps and etrap centres for the period till 2020 is unprecedented. President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov saw the progress in implementing this programme during his visit to Balkan Velayat. The Turkmen leader made a working trip to this region without prior notification the local authorities. The President flew by helicopter around the region to see the current state of agricultural fields in Ahal and Balkan Velayat.
During the trip to the western region the Turkmen leader visited the school, kindergarten, health centre and shop in Belek settlement in Turkmenbashi Etrap. Talking to local school teachers, medical workers and other local citizens, the Turkmen leader asked them about their everyday concerns, living and working conditions, health and leisure time of children and provision of food products.
“To guarantee the new, high standards of living to citizens is the key objective and goal of the policy of Turkmenistan the essence of which is embodied in the principle “a state for the people”, said President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov during the meeting with high-ranking officials of Balkan Velayat, Turkmenbashi Etrap and local government bodies at the gengeshlik of Belek settlement.
A week later the President of Turkmenistan visited Mary Velayat where he attended the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the enterprises producing ammonia and carbamide which took place in the vicinities of Mary town.
The Turkmen leader visited Bayramali Etrap to see the existing situation in this region. This meeting with the President and the cordial and warm-hearted conversations with him, which particularly took place in the kindergarten and school, became a memorable event for citizens of Ucajy settlement.
President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov repeatedly emphasizes that the concern for people, their interests and welfare is a key policy priority of the Turkmen state that underlies all ambitious reforms launched in the country in the new historical epoch. This is convincingly evidenced by the plans for the development of socio-economic infrastructure in Ucajy settlement the Turkmen leader presented during the meetings with local citizens.
The eastern region has been offered a new impetus to develop. The plan for the development of Garlyk settlement, where a large industrial centre is being formed, was approved during the January 28 government meeting. The establishment of a new settlement where comfortable apartment houses with be built and modern infrastructure will be developed testifies to the increasing potential of all regions of our country, including Lebap Velayat, said the Turkmen leader endorsing this document.
The steps taken in the country to promote the sports and physical culture movement and a healthy lifestyle in the society are dictated by the concern for people and their welfare.
Many-millioned investment allocated by the state for this purpose is used to construct and equip modern sports complexes, sports schools, stadiums, that is, to develop modern sports and recreation infrastructure in the country, including the tourism and education sectors.
The National Programme to Promote and Develop Physical Culture and Sport in Turkmenistan in 2011-2030 approved by President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and the action plan to implement this Programme is to make the work carried out in these sphere systematic.
The preservation of the rich historical, spiritual and cultural heritage of the Turkmen people is a cornerstone of the state policy.
A striking symbol of the flowering of the national culture is are Turkmen opera, theatre art and circus and cinematography. A wonderful present for admirers of vocal art and music, including folk music, is the concerts of the State Choir of Turkmenistan that is affiliated with the National Cultural Centre in accordance with the Resolution of President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov.
The first issue of World Literature Journal appeared in print in January 2011. The new periodical is designed to acquaint the readers with the cultural heritage and modern trends in Turkmen literature as well as with outstanding artistic works of foreign authors and spiritual values of different nations of the world.
International conferences, festivals, concerts, exhibitions and meetings between scientists and artists have began the attributes of social life in Turkmenistan.
In January the exhibition of Turkmen commodities was held in Mashhad, one of the largest industrial centres in Iran, and the exhibition of industrial and building materials of the republic of Turkey took place in Ashgabat.
The Days of Culture of Saudi Arabia in Turkmenistan were a success. The art forum initiated by the leaders of the two states, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud opened up new horizons of fruitful cultural cooperation adding a new bright page to the history of friendship between the two nations bound with age-old spiritual and cultural affinities.
The demonstration of children’s films in the Turkmenistan Cinema and Concert Centre in Ashgabat during the winter school holidays became a wonderful present for young citizens and guests of Ashgabat. The programme of the two-day film festival organized the Ministry of Culture and Broadcasting of Turkmenistan in collaboration with the U.S. Embassy in Turkmenistan include American full-length animated and feature films.
The Days of Cinematography of Georgia in Ashgabat became a remarkable event in cultural life of the country.
In January 27 the Armed Forces of independent neutral Turkmenistan celebrated their nineteenth anniversary. “You are devoted defenders of the Fatherland in the epoch of New Revival and great reforms. And this is the most solemn and noblest mission that fell to your lot. I firmly believe that you will always selflessly serve the Motherland and deserve the title of defender of the Fatherland, sovereign of Turkmenistan,” said President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov in his congratulating address to commanders, officers, soldiers and cadets on the Day of Defenders of the Fatherland.
At the conclusion of the overview of January events, we can state with confidence that the first month of the year set the pace of implementation of the plans and programmes devised by the Turkmen leader Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov that laid the foundation for future accomplishments and achievements that the year 2011 is so rich in.
It should be noted that new building premieres were reported to take place on the first days of the year 2011.
A new cultural centre was put into operation in Gypjak settlement in Ruhabat Etrap in Ahal Velayat, and five social and cultural facilities, including Gengesh administrative building, cultural centre, kindergarten designed for 160 children, shopping centre and health centre with chemist’s shop and emergency station, were opened in Babarab settlement in Ruhabat Etrap. A new bus was presented on behalf of the Turkmen leader to local children. The new medical centre received a resuscitation ambulance supplied with state-of-the-art equipment.
The ceremony of opening the building complex of the Main Department of Civil Defence and Rescue Operations of the Ministry of Defence took place on January 6. President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov attended the ceremony. The complex built on Galkynys Street in accordance with the Resolution of the President of Turkmenistan forms an architectural ensemble with the buildings of the Military Institute and the Ministry of Defence of Turkmenistan. The facades of these buildings together with the Galkynys Square, a symbol of the new historical epoch form the open-ended circle.
During the ceremony the President visited the Emergency Management Centre, where he conducted the first video conference with the velayat subdivisions of the Main Department for Civil Defence and Rescue Operations.
President of Turkmenistan, Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces General of the Army Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov held an enlarged meeting of the State Security Council in the assembly hall of the new building. The meeting agenda focused on the results of the work done in 2010 and priority tasks set to the military and law enforcement agencies.
During the meeting the Turkmen leader signed the Decree establishing the Border Guard Institute and the Resolution approving the Regulations of S. A. Niyazov the Great Military Institute of the Ministry of Defence. General of the Army S. A. Niyazov Police Academy was reorganized in S. A. Niyazov Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
A significant event in the world political calendar was the first official visit of President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso to Turkmenistan which took place on January 14-15.
The talks between President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and the head of the European Commission clearly evidenced that Turkmenistan and EU member states view each other as strategic partners who are determined to intensify and expand the dialogue in all spheres.
In this regard the Turkmen leader noted that the mutual interest and willingness to enhance contacts covering the political, economic and humanitarian aspects of cooperation, the ongoing large-scale reforms in Turkmenistan and EU’s new approaches to partnership with our country laid the firm foundations for effective collaboration.
During the talks priority vectors of Turkmenistan-EU cooperation were identified. In particular, emphasis was put on the need to concert efforts to respond to global threats and challenges of the modern world.
The agenda of the talks Between President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso focused on the prospects for promoting energy cooperation and building new architecture of global energy security.
Emphasizing that Turkmenistan stood ready to enhance the European vector of the energy policy, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov said all requisites for that existed.
The European Union was ready to offer Turkmenistan an integrated market that is predictable and based on the adherence to legal norms and the terms of agreements and contracts, the respect for and balance of interests of parties, said the EC President.
Summarizing the statements made in Ashgabat by EC President Jose Manuel Barroso and President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov regarding the prospects for building a gas pipeline towards Europe, it can be concluded that this project is moving from the stage of negotiations and discussions to the stage of specific decisions and commencement of the work of experts and professionals towards the project implementation. This assessment was given to the talks in the Turkmen capital by the news agencies worldwide, including the EuroNews TV channel that covered this event as the main news of the day.
The possibilities to diversify bilateral cooperation in the fuel and energy sector were the main agenda item of the Turkmen-German Energy Symposium organized by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, the German-Turkmen Forum and the on Eastern European Committee of German Economy. The forum took place in the capital of the Federal Republic of Germany on January 19.
The Turkmen-German working group held the second meeting in Berlin on January 18. The meeting agenda focused on the prospects for promoting mutually advantageous partnership in the trade, economic, transport, communication, scientific and education, agricultural, health, tourism and environmental sectors.
Integrating in the global economic system, Turkmenistan has earned the reputation of being a dynamically developing country with the tremendous economic, resource and humanitarian potential.
This fact was illustrated in the World Economic Situation and Prospects 2011 prepared by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and the five United Nations regional commissions. The UN experts expect the economic growth rate in Turkmenistan in 2011-2012 to be at least 10 percent.
President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov conducted the in-depth analysis of social and economic development of Turkmenistan in 2010 and identified the tasks to be fulfilled in 2011 that is marked by the glorious 20th anniversary of independence of the Motherland during the January 10 enlarged meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers.
These tasks include searching for new line of national development for the sake of the generations to come and promoting the foreign policy that “continues to be the open door policy and enhance peace and stability in the region as consistent with the status of neutrality of Turkmenistan,” emphasizes the Turkmen leader.
The Turkmen leader placed emphasis on the need to work further toward economic diversification, adoption of market mechanisms and development of the financial and banking system in the country. To develop the regulatory framework for privatization, promote private ownership and provide the substantial state support for entrepreneurial activities are the critical tasks to be fulfilled in the coming years.
The measures taken by the Turkmen leader to bring the national science and education sector in line with international standards determined the vector, the main road of development of the Turkmen state in the new historical epoch.
“We consistently implement our reforms laying emphasis on education as the foundation for the development of the economy as well as society,” said President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov speaking during the enlarged government meeting. In this context the Turkmen leader focused on the importance of computer literacy and instructed to provide all educational institutions with computer equipment and Internet access. Also the Presdient instructed to give personal computers to every first former throughout the country.
The computer training courses were incorporated in the curricula of all schools and high educational institutions throughout the country, including the Civil Service Academy. It was a timely measure taken to facilitate introducing the e-government electronic documentation management system. This system is to become a critical step to enhance the efficiency of the work of ministries and departments, institutions and organisations, the public administration sector in general.
The scientific journal Bilim intended to promote the education reform, professional training and national and international practice in this critical sphere was founded in January.
Turkmen science is oriented towards practical results. The President of Turkmenistan approved the programme of research activities to be conducted in 2011-2015 prioritising such spheres as innovative technologies in the agro-industry sector, ecology and efficient resource management; power energy and fuel and efficient use of these resources; chemical technologies and production expansion; construction, architecture and seismology; medicine and pharmaceutical manufacturing; information and telecommunications technologies, economic and humanitarian sciences.
The banking sector development programme for the period of 2010-2030 adopted by the President of Turkmenistan in late January became an important step to promote the ongoing financial and economic reforms and improve the monetary, credit and currency policy.
Private commodity producers play a significant role in promoting the drastic reforms aimed at developing modern market infrastructure in the country.
The putting into operation of new enterprises, including particularly the Keyik glass works, testifies to the growing potential of the private sector. President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov attended the ceremony of opening the enterprise, which manufactures over 20 types of glassware, including glass containers for drinks, juices, mineral waters.
In fact, everything being done in the country to bring it to new heights of progress is viewed through the prism of the social priorities of the Turkmen leader’s policy.
This is evidence by the General Programme for Drinking Water Supply to Settlements of Turkmenistan” that sets forth a number of specific measures devised by specialists of the sectoral ministries and departments, including the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Water Industry, the Ministry of Nature Protection, the Academy of Sciences and velayats khyakimliks, approved in January 2011 to significantly improve water supply to the population.
The scale of construction projects launched throughout the country under the National Programme for the improvement of social and living conditions in villages, settlements, towns in etraps and etrap centres for the period till 2020 is unprecedented. President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov saw the progress in implementing this programme during his visit to Balkan Velayat. The Turkmen leader made a working trip to this region without prior notification the local authorities. The President flew by helicopter around the region to see the current state of agricultural fields in Ahal and Balkan Velayat.
During the trip to the western region the Turkmen leader visited the school, kindergarten, health centre and shop in Belek settlement in Turkmenbashi Etrap. Talking to local school teachers, medical workers and other local citizens, the Turkmen leader asked them about their everyday concerns, living and working conditions, health and leisure time of children and provision of food products.
“To guarantee the new, high standards of living to citizens is the key objective and goal of the policy of Turkmenistan the essence of which is embodied in the principle “a state for the people”, said President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov during the meeting with high-ranking officials of Balkan Velayat, Turkmenbashi Etrap and local government bodies at the gengeshlik of Belek settlement.
A week later the President of Turkmenistan visited Mary Velayat where he attended the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the enterprises producing ammonia and carbamide which took place in the vicinities of Mary town.
The Turkmen leader visited Bayramali Etrap to see the existing situation in this region. This meeting with the President and the cordial and warm-hearted conversations with him, which particularly took place in the kindergarten and school, became a memorable event for citizens of Ucajy settlement.
President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov repeatedly emphasizes that the concern for people, their interests and welfare is a key policy priority of the Turkmen state that underlies all ambitious reforms launched in the country in the new historical epoch. This is convincingly evidenced by the plans for the development of socio-economic infrastructure in Ucajy settlement the Turkmen leader presented during the meetings with local citizens.
The eastern region has been offered a new impetus to develop. The plan for the development of Garlyk settlement, where a large industrial centre is being formed, was approved during the January 28 government meeting. The establishment of a new settlement where comfortable apartment houses with be built and modern infrastructure will be developed testifies to the increasing potential of all regions of our country, including Lebap Velayat, said the Turkmen leader endorsing this document.
The steps taken in the country to promote the sports and physical culture movement and a healthy lifestyle in the society are dictated by the concern for people and their welfare.
Many-millioned investment allocated by the state for this purpose is used to construct and equip modern sports complexes, sports schools, stadiums, that is, to develop modern sports and recreation infrastructure in the country, including the tourism and education sectors.
The National Programme to Promote and Develop Physical Culture and Sport in Turkmenistan in 2011-2030 approved by President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and the action plan to implement this Programme is to make the work carried out in these sphere systematic.
The preservation of the rich historical, spiritual and cultural heritage of the Turkmen people is a cornerstone of the state policy.
A striking symbol of the flowering of the national culture is are Turkmen opera, theatre art and circus and cinematography. A wonderful present for admirers of vocal art and music, including folk music, is the concerts of the State Choir of Turkmenistan that is affiliated with the National Cultural Centre in accordance with the Resolution of President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov.
The first issue of World Literature Journal appeared in print in January 2011. The new periodical is designed to acquaint the readers with the cultural heritage and modern trends in Turkmen literature as well as with outstanding artistic works of foreign authors and spiritual values of different nations of the world.
International conferences, festivals, concerts, exhibitions and meetings between scientists and artists have began the attributes of social life in Turkmenistan.
In January the exhibition of Turkmen commodities was held in Mashhad, one of the largest industrial centres in Iran, and the exhibition of industrial and building materials of the republic of Turkey took place in Ashgabat.
The Days of Culture of Saudi Arabia in Turkmenistan were a success. The art forum initiated by the leaders of the two states, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud opened up new horizons of fruitful cultural cooperation adding a new bright page to the history of friendship between the two nations bound with age-old spiritual and cultural affinities.
The demonstration of children’s films in the Turkmenistan Cinema and Concert Centre in Ashgabat during the winter school holidays became a wonderful present for young citizens and guests of Ashgabat. The programme of the two-day film festival organized the Ministry of Culture and Broadcasting of Turkmenistan in collaboration with the U.S. Embassy in Turkmenistan include American full-length animated and feature films.
The Days of Cinematography of Georgia in Ashgabat became a remarkable event in cultural life of the country.
In January 27 the Armed Forces of independent neutral Turkmenistan celebrated their nineteenth anniversary. “You are devoted defenders of the Fatherland in the epoch of New Revival and great reforms. And this is the most solemn and noblest mission that fell to your lot. I firmly believe that you will always selflessly serve the Motherland and deserve the title of defender of the Fatherland, sovereign of Turkmenistan,” said President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov in his congratulating address to commanders, officers, soldiers and cadets on the Day of Defenders of the Fatherland.
At the conclusion of the overview of January events, we can state with confidence that the first month of the year set the pace of implementation of the plans and programmes devised by the Turkmen leader Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov that laid the foundation for future accomplishments and achievements that the year 2011 is so rich in.