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Final Joint Declaration of International Forum dedicated to financing of realization of the Sustainable Development Goals held by initiative of Turkmenistan and under the UN sponsorship on May 28, 2020 was adopted as a document of the 74th session of the United Nation General Assembly. This document was published in six official languages of the UN and distributed among country members of the United Nations.

President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov was informed on this during the session of the Government on June 26 by vice-premier, Foreign Minister of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov.

The Head of the Foreign Ministry congratulated the Head of the State on this foreign political victory, which has become another evidence of the input of Turkmenistan to provision of global peace, prosperity and progress by the world community.

In this regard, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov noted that we see this event as an evidence of growing authority of the country in the world arena as well as another confirmation of high efficiency of foreign course of Turkmenistan, which is based on the principles of permanent neutrality.

Adoption of this document in the year of the 25th anniversary of neutrality of the country, which has been recognized two times by the United Nations and set in its main multilateral documents, is very important. Speaking of this, the President highlighted high level of strategic partnership between Turkmenistan and the UN.

Having congratulated Turkmen people and all participants of the session on this important foreign political event, Turkmen leader confirmed the commitment of our country to the course on further strengthening and expansion of comprehensive cooperation with the UN.

 The state news agency of Turkmenistan 

As part of coronavirus (COVID-19) preventive measures, the Government of Georgia made a decision to impose restrictions on the entry of foreign nationals. The restrictions will become effective from 18 March 2020, 00:00 and will remain in force for two weeks.
The restrictions will apply to any foreign national except:

1. Representatives of diplomatic missions and international organizations accredited to Georgia and their family members;
2. Mixed families where one of the spouses or their under-age child is a citizen of Georgia;
3. Persons arriving in Georgia as part of humanitarian mission – if trip of such mission (doctors, volunteers) to Georgia becomes a necessity;
4. Individuals who have been granted the status of stateless person by respective authorities of Georgia.
5. Individuals holding status-neutral travel documents;  
6. Individuals having a refugee status in Georgia;
7. The issue of official delegations will be decided on a case-to-case basis.  

The main aspects of presentations of the Congress participants:

Policy and open inter-state dialogue foreign real estate from 27 countries, residential and commercial real estate, gold and gold assets, Permanent and second citizenship, banks and lending in Germany and European funds, IT technologies and investments in promising startups, ICO and venture investments cryptocurrencies-blockchain, shares and bonds of national companies, film industry and Antiques, helicopter and yacht business, Oktoberfest, fashion and expensive clothes, luxury goods. Members of Congress — investors from 29 countries and sales proposals for investors from 40 countries.

Press conference

Congressmen will have the opportunity to interview at a press conference with world media, including ABC, CBS, NBC, The Los Angeles Journal, Yahoo Finance, The New York Journal, Digital Journal, Singapore Roundup, The American Reporter, London Post and other.

Novelties of Congress 2019

1) START UP SHOW ONLINE EXPO

including networking opportunity with investors of the ‘Start Up’ segment with the support of ER- Telecom , SIBUR-Khimprom, Uralkali, URALCHEM, Promobot, CodeBits Interactive etc.

13.09.2019 Demo Day, Russia Morion Digital (t. Perm ). Startups will present thair projects to representatives of companies ER-Telecom, SIBUR-Khimprom, URALCHEM, Uralkali to obtain pilot projects with corporations.

Investors Day 4.10.2019 international Congress Munich

What a Start-Up Gets ?

-     Presentation of the project to the European investment audience with a total potential of over 200m € - Business lending and refinancing at European rates - Grant of $100,000

-     Presentation at the Web Summit conference in Lisbon (4 -7 November 2019)

What the Investor Gets ?:

- Investments in promising startups from 500 applications that have been selected up to 50

 - Join the investors club

- Quality networking with like-minded people

2) OPEN INTERNATIONAL DIALOGUE

Congress in conjunction with Christian Grosse event host of OPEN INTERNATIONAL DIALOGUE advocate for open political dialogue . The project provides for the award of outstanding politicians and representatives of the state for making a special contribution to the development of bilateral interstate relations according to The New York Journal.

Guests:

Ambassador of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Germany – Dauren Karipov (Kazakhstan) ;

His Excellency Sheikh Saud bin Abdulrahman Al Thani , Ambassador of the state of Qatar in Germany (Qatar) ;

The Ambassador of Georgia in Germany – Elguja of Hokrishvili (Georgia);

Ambassador of the Republic of Moldova to the Federal Republic of Germany – Oleg Serebryan (Moldova) ;

Ambassador of the Republic of Azerbaijan in Germany – Ramin Hasanov (Azerbaijan) ;

Ambassador of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan in Germany, Erines Otorbaev (Kyrgyzstan) ;

The Ambassador of Armenia in Germany Ashot Smbatyan (Armenia) ;

Ambassador of Slovenia in Germany-Frank Booth (Slovenia) ;

Charge d'affaires of Afghanistan in Germany – Abdul of Ariai (Afghanistan);

Honorary Consul of Azerbaijan in Germany – Otto Hauser (Azerbaijan) ;

Consul General of the Republic of Belarus in Munich – Andrey kulazhenko (Belarus) ;

Consul General of the Republic of Serbia in Munich – Snezhana Miljanic (Serbia) ;

Bundestag Deputy from the CDU – Gerhardt Hauptmann (Germany) ;

Bundestag Deputy from the CDU – Thomas Barei (Germany) ;

Volker Treier, managing Director of the DIHK (Germany) ;

The members of the land Board CSU party of Germany – Ozan Lubas (Germany) ;

First Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Central government Committee of CSU of Bavaria on migration and integration – Sergey Chernyavsky (Germany) ;

Russian politician, acting adviser to the President of the Russian Federation class I – Aslambek Aslakhanov (Russia) ;

Governor Of Kaluga Region – Anatoly Artamonov (Russia) ;

Adviser To The Governor Of Kaluga Region – Kutsko Nikolay Vasilyevich (Russia) ;

The head of the city of Volgograd – Vitaly Likhachev (Russia) ;

Candidate for the Presidential Election of Russia 2018 – Sergey Baburin (Russia) ;

Candidate for the Presidential Elections of the Russian Federation 2018, Chairman of the National parent Committee of the Russian Federation – Volynets Irina Nikolaevna (Russia);

Director of «Eastern European company» – Kuznecov Aleksey Vladimirovich ;

Doctor of economic Sciences, Professor – Alexander Rutskoi ;

Owner Of «Georgia Times» – Malkhaz Gulashvili (Georgia)

3 )Congress Awards 2019

The winners of the Award, the most successful, according to the Expert Council and the new York Journal version, will be awarded with honorary statuettes and souvenirs of Congress.

Award Winners:

Grigoriy Avetov

Event host of a large-scale business event SYNERGY GLOBAL FORUM. Supervisor of investment projects to support startups.

Vladimir Nikolaev

Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the St. Petersburg international Housing Congress

Kseniya Korzun

General Manager of International immigration and Luxury Property Expo (London, Monaco, Cannes, Moscow, Mumbai, Shanghai, Bangkok, Kiev)

Gulshat Usenbaeva

Organiser of LUXPRO Business Events business event in Monaco, as well as judge of international beauty contests and co-author of the book «Global Citizen».

4) Expert opinion of leading congressmen

Business club, Tarutao with the support Republic of Bashkortostan under the President The total annual turnover of the club's residents is 3.7 billion rubles. Residents of the club deputies of The state Duma. The purpose of Tarutao to combine all of the business Community in Russia to the club under the Federation Council of the Russian Federation. Special gift to guests of the Congress residence for 1 year under special conditions.

Round table

with the participation of the Head of the Bavarian-Russian cultural society – Roman Naydich,

Esteemed guests include the managing partner of the German company Kaiser Estate - Boris Bronstein, along with Mr. Sander and Mr. Kuzin, presenting the Global Real-Estate

Forum, as an international platform for business development and investment.

5) Vladislav Bermuda Bogatyr «Free Marketing»

• Presentation of «25 Creative Ideas to earn a Million» by the Investor Vladislav Bermudа,

co-founder of the service of free air travel «Fly free». Presentation of the bestseller V. Bermuda, raffle and gifts to congressmen. Increase the profit of your business.

6) Features of the advertising campaign in Germany :

• Presentation by media marketing company «Bem-Media.de» with a completely innovative outlook on business development in Germany. Bem Media enjoys a huge audience, with a monthly circulation of more than 900,000 copies of the Russian-language press in Germany alone, along with the popular TV channel «TVRUS» (more than 6 million subscribers).

7) Marketing Agency for congressmen at LTC MediaVerlag:

• «Blesk», «Brilliance», «Neue Zeiten», «Russian Voyage», «Career». 17 years of advertising campaigns for: Ministry of tourism of Israel, Aeroflot, Transaero, S7, MAU (international airlines of Ukraine), AirAstana.

 8) British Concierge service «BSI LIFESTYLE» with many years of experience

•Special thanks to exclusive private Concierge club «BSI LIFESTYLE» for their support in the placement and organization of leisure of our VIP delegates. 20 years of trust from the 100 most successful and richest people in the world

9) Business Consultant & Boske Capital Group

Will submit to the Congress a business Desk asset management:

-8 psychological techniques to increase sales

-21 practices for successful transactions.

10) Viral marketing without a budget:

«Hype» and «Explosive PR»?

Indoor creative club President Roman Maslennikov - the first meeting of the PR-club Munich 05.10.19.

Five best creatives in speed dating mode for congressmen will give 15 PR-ideas, implementing from scratch reputational benefits without the investment.

Bonus:

free participation in the hype marathon, a six-month subscription to the closed Telegram channel with ideas for every day, the book «Hype» autographed by the author and free participation in the PR club 05.10.19.

10) Dmitry Nagiev Charity Fund

Supported by: Emin Agalarov, Evgeny Petrosyan, Anastasia Zavorotnyuk, Dmitry Khrustalev, Valdis Pelsh, Thomas Nevergreen and many others.

The curator of the auction is Dmitry Nagiyev.

free participation in hype-marathon, a six-month subscription to enclosed Telegram channel with ideas for each day, the book «Hipanem» autographed by author free PR club 05.10.19.

▪  For the first time in the history of the congress we will gather participants and guests for a Charity Auction in support of the Dmitry Nagiyev Charity Fund. Among the auction lots will be presented not only valuable creative works, but also personal belongings from our contemporaries who turned their lives into art. Funds raised at the auction will be used to treat children and fund hospital wards supported by the foundation.

11) Investments at the genetic level. Closed discussion podium Medical Centre Trivaks

Irina Trivaks: «Just treat patients it is not enough today , it is necessary to improve the biological code of healthy.» Yuval Noah Harari, Israel

I. investigation of the risk of hereditary diseases

II. Hypoxia as a source of «second breath»

III. Hormones - good gradually. How never to grow old? Celebrities choose Exclusive medicine of Bavaria

12) Open session Dr. Andrew Khurcha (Vienna/Austria) Rector of the Academy of TOP Management-President of the international investment and consulting group AG.CAPITAL Founder and Evangelist, «the theory of Optimal Positioning» environmental management system of business and life .

Author and lecturer of the certified MBA course «Strategic and operational management in the company». Creator of the legendary technology «Revolver sales». Author - developer of CRM systems for real estate market «DOM-KRAT». TOP 10 coaches-consultants in leadership and business management TOPTRAINER ID «personnel Management». Included in the rating «Best business coaches of Russia-2019» Founder of the Federal network of real estate agencies «Alfa».

13) Gala-Evening

•Street Models Show and 50 beauties in the Top Beauty International & Parade Event Group project. On the podium will go the girls who have passed selection from 1000 participants.

▪ Fashion Favorite 2019 & Fashion Investment will open the new Ambassador PACO RABANNE Veronika Jeanvie collection , Parisian couture dresses from Kazahstan will present Rustina with her Fairytale Concept Collection .The presentation of this collection made a splash in Cannes! For the first time the new collection 2019-2020 MIRACLE will be shown, with special gifts and compliments, especially for Congressmen and guests of the Congress!

▪ Fashion Show from event group «World Kids Fashion». Charity fashion show for children and adults. Designers and brands will present their collections: Anna Ramakaeva, Sarafan Moscow, Voronova dress, Dasha Verona, supporting The Dmitry Nagiyev Charity Fund.

▪ For those interested in painting, an exhibition of 3D paintings by the famous art artist of Bavaria Tatiana Shraiber will be held. All paintings are structural, with the effect of 3D, gold potal, stones, epoxy, in its own style Tatiana_Art_Woman.

▪ Chess tournaments between amateurs and professionals alike.

▪ Entertainment program including dancers, gymnasts, and music with the participation Master class and presentation of the paintings of Mr. Funtikova entrepreneur, artist, actual, academician of the International Slavic Academy. Mind-expanding paintings and gifts to congressmen from the Maestro.

Other events for guests of the Congress:

▪  Tour of the Nymphenburg Palace.

▪  It will be a pleasant surprise that the organizers, as true innovators, decided to expand the scope of standard conferences and congresses and hold a presentation of partner companies at informal discussions in the Festzelt Tradition VIP box at Oktoberfest.

Information: International Congress of Real Estate and Investments is held annually since 2016.

Contact us : For participation in Congress:

+7 (985) 927-77-00 + 49- 162-232-8-333

For questions about the charity auction please contact : +7 915 093-07-66

For FASHION SHOW contact : +7 915 093-07-66, +7 903 777-88-10

Website : http://congress-realty.com/en

Regular issues of scientific and practical magazine Foreign Policy and Diplomacy of Turkmenistan published by the Foreign Ministry in Turkmen, Russian and English languages is dedicated to the review of important events of foreign activity of our country in the fourth quarter of the last year.

The magazine is opened by traditional section highlighting the talks held by President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov with high-rank officials of foreign countries. It includes the information about working visit of Turkmen leader to Saint Petersburg (Russian Federation) for participation of the meeting of the Heads of the CIS countries, which has demonstrated the commitment of Turkmen side to traditional fruitful dialog under the Commonwealth, the country of which are united with Turkmenistan by old good and close relations.

Having undertaken the chairing of this structure in 2019, our state would continue to provide comprehensive support to the improvement of cooperation. In this regard, the Concept of chairing of our country and Implementation Plan have bee developed and presented to the CIS Executive Committee.

Official visit of the President of Azerbaijan to Turkmenistan in the last decade of November 2018 wrote new chapter in the history of friendly bilateral relations developing in the spirit of goodwill. The magazine contains detailed information about the outcomes of the talks held between Presidents Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and Ilham Aliyev.

The events dedicated to International Neutrality Day are among the reviews. For example, the magazine has published the speeches of the participants of International Conference “Importance of the Silk Road: Present and Future Development” organized on the threshold of the holiday by the Government of Turkmenistan in cooperation with the UNESCO - the UN specialized structure for education, science and cultural affairs. The forum has brought together the ministers, high-level representatives and experts from more than 40 countries and demonstrated the significance of legendary route for sustainable development and support of intercultural dialog.

The Days of the Sustainable Development Goals held in October to mark 1,000 days since the adoption of 2030 Global Agenda were important event in life of the country. The event was organized by the Foreign Ministry, the UN Permanent Representative Office in Turkmenistan and Methodological Centre of the Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Trainings, seminars and festivals have been organized under the Days.

The UN Permanent Coordinators Elena Panova informed the readers of the magazine about the outcomes of these events where she expressed the gratitude to President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and the Government of Turkmenistan for the support of Global Agenda and commitment to the implementation of the SDGs in our country.

Articles “The Great Silk Road and Practice of International Cooperation of Turkmenistan”, “ “Turkmenistan in the system of international economic relations”, materials dedicated to cooperation of our country with the CIS members and work for improvement of sustainable development and ecological culture present great interest as well.

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Korea to Turkmenistan Jin Ki-Hun deliberates about the revival of the Silk Road in modern conditions on example of the development of Turkmen – Korean relations.

Another article of the magazine is dedicated to the Silk Road, which is described in details by Head of the State Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov in two-volume book. The article highlights joint work of our country in cooperation with the UNESCO on study and popularization of cultural heritage facilities located along the Silk Road.

Author of article “Youth Affairs – Priority Objective of Foreign Course of Turkmenistan” reviews this subject in the context of the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals on national level.

Traditional section “Chronicles of Diplomatic Life” is dedicated to conferences, briefings, foreign department political consultations, sessions of inter-governmental commissions, bilateral meetings and talks with foreign delegations as well as to the events held together with foreign embassies accredited in Turkmenistan.

The state news agency of Turkmenistan

The organizers of Foreign Real Estate and Investments Berlin Congress decided to break the stereotypes of the usual and go beyond the traditional conferences!

The event that is awesome for its revolutionary and innovative format will be held on 18 February, 2019 in the German capital for the first time − Foreign Real Estate and Investment Berlin Congress. According to the organizer and representative of the Congress in Russia Natalia Pastukhova, it is unique not only because:

ü  will be held in an unusual place - Berlin Capital Club (an exclusive business "millionaire club" located in the Gendarmenmarkt square where only those who are lucky enough to get a membership card: influential investors, businessmen and politicians who come to the club to enjoy a cigar , relax, playing golf or in order to conduct  business negotiations in a sophisticated atmosphere);

ü  each congress participant can become a guest of the Berlin Capital Club;

ü  The congress venue is totally new - the capital of Germany. And this is important because Berlin and, in general, the other northern cities of Germany are extremely attractive for investors, because the pricing policy for investment here is very flexible, and the yield is high,

but also by a bold, creative format that combines a business forum and networking, a press conference and a gala concert, participation in a golf tournament and a property tour of the surrounding area.

The International Congress of Real Estate and Investments has been held annually since 2016. It took place most recently on 7 October, 2018, in Munich and gathered 440 participants from 19 countries of the world. According to the results, 79 publications were published in the media around the world. More than thousand guests attended the 2018 Munich Congress, and current topics that were discussed during the event, attracted the attention of many media outlets − 83 world media attended the briefing, which was held in the largest press club in Bavaria. 

The Congress is held with the active support of the world investment leaders - Saulius Karosas (oil trader, guest of honor and sponsor of the Congress), Sergei Baburin (Russian politician and businessman), Valerii Tsepkalo (Belarusian statesman, founder of “Silicon Valley”, Stankevicius MGM and its head Paulius Stankevicius, a leader in PR and advertising. (The firm advises Fortune 500 companies and international small and medium enterprises. Stankevicius MGM has provided successful PR campaigns for companies that have entered the ICO and as a result it attracted more than 300 million dollars for blockchain projects). World investment experts will speak on this day about the main problems, trends and prospects for the development of international business, profitable investments, the possibility of obtaining a second citizenship and a residence permit, economic investments also.

The organizers of the upcoming International Real Estate Congress and Investments in Berlin decided to set themselves important tasks this year:

to help every businessman, every investor, every person who plans to develop a new territory, who plans to conclude a deal in a particular country, but faces to difficulties for various reasons;

to remove all bans, eliminate all causes that prevent  the successful result of the transaction;

to bring everything to the fact that the whole process will be easy from the beginning to the final stage, will be transparent and clear: in the participants' native language. "To feel like home on any continent".

Everyone will be able to find a solution to their problems on 18 February, 2019 at Berlin Capital Club: investors will have a unique opportunity to compare the profitability of various investments − in real estate and cryptocurrency, securities and precious metals, antiques and the film industry and all this is on the same time and place. For companies with high development potential that require investment −  to present their product and find their consumer or investor.

The mix of official and behind-the-scenes communication will allow participants and guests of the Congress to gain maximum benefits, and tasting exclusive drinks from the world's best sommeliers, a buffet from Michelin-starred chefs, participation in a golf tournament and the opportunity to enjoy elite cigars in the refined atmosphere of the main business club of the German capital, will help to make many new contacts.

Berlin Real Estate and Investment Congress will be held on 18 February, 2019 in Berlin Capital Club am Gendarmen Markt, Mohrenstraße 30, Berlin

Detailed information by phone:

in the Russian Federation +7 985 927 77 00

in Germany +49 162 232 8 333

At the press briefing following the cabinet meeting the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, David Zalkaliani made a statement regarding the decision of Russian occupation regimes to ban the movement across the occupation line from January 2019.

“We call upon the Russian Federation and its occupation regimes to immediately open the so-called crossing points across the occupation line. First and foremost it is a humanitarian issue and gravely violates the fundamental right to freedom of movement”, – David Zalkaliani stated.

According to the Minister, the decision of the Russian occupation regime in Tskhinvali to introduce new discriminatory measures for Akhalgori population from February 2019 is another grave concern since it envisages additional restriction of free movement of ethnic Georgians living in Tskhinvali region.

David Zalkaliani stressed that the Co-Chairs of Geneva International Discussions are fully informed about the current situation in the occupied territories.

The Minister underlined that the government of Georgia will spare no efforts to facilitate ensuring the protection of the fundamental rights and improvement of the living conditions of the population on the ground through peaceful and diplomatic efforts.

Biopic (biographical movie) about Lesya Ukrainka will be directed by Georgian movie director and scriptwriter - Nana Janelidze. Also, casting will be held shortly and the project team will start filming a teaser.

Cinematic portfolio of Nana Janelidze includes 5 feature-length works directed by her and 6 works in which she is the author of the script. In particular, she wrote the script of Repentance (მონანიება) (directed by Tengiz Abuladze, 1987). The movie received the Grand Prix of the Cannes Film Festival and was also nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.The movie about Lesya Ukrainka will be the first filmstrip of Nana Janelidze made in Ukraine.

“Lesya Ukrainka – it is a dusty portrait on a school wall, this is a live, passionate, jealous and dedicated woman who is fighting a deadly disease. She spent greedily and “felt” each moment, given to her by her fate, in order to depict in her work the heavy burden of her big talent. As soon as I heard about the project, I instantly felt that I wanted to work on it because this is really inspiring” – Nana Janelidze says.

The movie with the working title “Lesya Ukrainka. Forest Edge (Uzlisia)” is the story of a great poetess from her early years until her last days of life. The two realities – daily life and Lesya’s inner world are closely intertwined and depict all key turns of her fate. Alexander Lavrenchuk is working on the script of the biopic. Experts of the life and work of Lesya Ukrainka are actively involved in the process of work on the picture by the team. Julia Sinkevych (JS Films, General Producer of Odessa International Film Festival) is the creative producer and author of the idea, and Maria Moskalenko (FX FILM Georgia) is a co-producer of the movie.

"To us, the story of Lesya Ukrainka is very personal. We wanted it to be filmed by a woman. We discussed directors from Ukraine and from Georgia – because Lesya Ukrainka’s life is closely linked to these countries. We needed a director with a new and unbiased view and all these characteristics are wonderfully combined in Nana Janelidze. The script inspired her from the first lines – and now we are actively working on it and will soon start filming a teaser” – say the producers: Julia Sinkevych and Maria Mosalenko.

On September 12, a grant agreement on the support of the project was signed between the company JS Film and Ukrainian Cultural Foundation. The project “Lesya Ukrainka, Forest Edge (Uzlisia)” won the competition of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation and took the first place among international cooperation projects in the category of audiovisual art and the 3^rd place among all international projects.    

Notably, the biopic script was selected for participation in the program ScripTeast.

Ukrainian Cultural Foundation is a state organization established in 2017 in accordance with Ukrainian law. It is aimed at promoting development of national culture and art in the country, ensuring favorable conditions for intellectual and spiritual development of the society, wide accessibility of national cultural heritage for the citizens, promoting cultural diversity and integration of Ukrainian culture in the world cultural space. In accordance with the effective legislation, Ukrainian Ministry of Culture carries out management and coordination of the foundation activity.

In the morning, President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov took part in the opening ceremony of polymeric plant in Kyanly settlement, which would be the largest petrochemical facility in the region for polyethylene and polypropylene production.

Vehicle of President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov arrives in the facility. The Head of the State is greeted by the Speaker of the Mejlis, members of the Cabinet of Ministers, heads of military and law enforcement agencies and Hyakim of Balkan Velayat.

The President of Turkmenistan goes to the place of the event. Exhibition demonstrating rich history and culture of Turkmen nation is opened in front of petrochemical complex. Music and dance composition with the participation of art collectives of Balkan Velayat added bright colours to the palette of event.

At the main entrance to the territory of new facility, the Head of the State cut symbolical ribbon under the applauses of the participants opening polymeric plant. President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov goes to the building where the event is to take place. The Head of the State is accompanied by foreign businessmen – the managers of Korean LG International Corporation and Hyundai Engineering Co. Ltd. And Turkish Çalik Holding, which are old partners of our country in realization of big infrastructural projects as well as Japanese TOYO Engineering Corporation, for which polymeric plant in Kiyanly became the first big project in Turkmenistan.

It was mentioned during the conversation that realization of this large-scale projects would be new important step in expansion of production capacity of national oil and gas industry, which development is treated with great importance. Intensification of gas processing segment is very current due to leading position of Turkmenistan in the world by gas reserves.

Turkmenistan pays great attention to the cooperation with Japan and the Republic of Korea including in the context of development of constructive dialog with the countries of Asian Pacific Region as one of strategic directions of its foreign policy and economic activity. Every year, this partnership, which is built of long-term basis under existing intergovernmental agreements and contract, gains new stimulus and specific content.

The Head of the State came up to the building where participants and guests of current event including the members of the Government, the Mejlis deputies, leaders of ministries and departments, public organizations, heads of diplomatic missions and international organizations accredited in Turkmenistan, representatives of national and foreign mass media have gathered. All of them greeted National leader with loud applauses.

Addressing the participants, Turkmen leader congratulated all on this remarkable event – opening of new petrochemical complex for production of polyethylene and polypropylene in Kianly Settlement, Balkan Velayat.

President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov noted that recently, the 27th anniversary of independence of our country was widely celebrated. Before the Independence Day, the first session of the People’s Council has been conducted on high organizational level. During the session, important objectives for provision of further comprehensive and dynamic development of the country have been outlined.

For example, the volume of the main investments to the economy has grown by more than 50 times for the years of Independence. 68 percent of the investments, which make 124 billion UD dollars, were sent to production sphere, which allowed building more than 200 big facilities.

As is known, our state has huge hydrocarbon reserves and takes leading positions in the world by number of deposits, the Head of the State continued. Recently, big work is carried out for production and processing of this valuable material and its stable and reliable supply to consumers. Such large facility as Garabogazkarbamid plant, which was also put into operation recently, can be brought as example.

This year, the construction of Afghan part of Turkmenistan – Afghanistan – Pakistan – India gas pipeline has been launched. The opening of new transnational gas line will give the opportunity to supply the above-mentioned countries with 33 billion cubic meters of Turkmen gas per year.

It is very important for provision of prosperous life of Turkmen people, achievement of peace and sustainable development on the region and on the planet, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov highlighted.

At the same time, our country not just export of mineral resources including natural gas to foreign markets but also pays great attention to the processing of raw materials. Efficient work aimed at production of necessary high quality and competitive goods from own resources is carried out.

This is visually indicated by the opening of new petrochemical complex for production of polyethylene and polypropylene in Kiyanly, which construction started on April 22, 2014. This big investment project to the amount of more than 3 billion 400 million US dollars was completed by the State Concern Turkmengaz together with Korean and Japanese companies. Production capacities of new complex were designed for processing of five billion cubic meters of gas per year.

High technology equipment of the facility allows producing 386 thousand tons of polyethylene and 81 thousand tons of polypropylene per year. After extraction of ethane and butane, which are used for production of the polymers, the remaining 4.5 billion cubic meters of pure gas would be delivered to gas pipeline system.

Qualified personnel has been trained for work at this high technology facility. More than 1,000 people had a training in training centres of the country and abroad. The plant has all conditions for productive work and comfort rest. The complex has canteen, hall and sport ground.

In this regard, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov expressed the gratitude to all specialists and construction personnel who participated in creation of this powerful modern facility as well as to the representatives of Japanese and Korean companies.

The facility, which construction was planned under the Programme of development of oil and gas industry of the country until 2030, became visual evidence of turning of independent neutral Turkmenistan into industrially developed state and the country producing ready-made commodities as well as the evidence of great-scale work that is done in the sphere of using natural resources for the interests of the nation, the President highlighted.

The Head of the State noted that strict attention is paid to the requirements of ecological safety during construction of various facilities in Turkmenistan. Great attention is also paid to the introduction of innovations and modern technologies. All these aspects were considered during construction of new facility.

Opening of new powerful complex would support the improvement of positions of our country not only at the world market of oil and gas resources but polymeric products as well, the President of Turkmenistan said, having expressed the confidence that this facility would make significant input to the current achievements of the country and would serve for many years to future generations.

Having congratulated the participants again on the opening of new big petrochemical complex for production of polyethylene and polypropylene, the Head of the State wished strong health, happy and prosperous life to all and great success in work to the personnel of the plant. The speech of the Head of Turkmenistan was welcomed by load applauses.

The ceremony was continued by foreign guests. First, the floor was given to representative of Julius Kun Institute (Germany), Doctor of Agronomy and Gardening Margit Olle. Having noted that petrochemical complex in Kiyanly has been recognized as high technology innovative facility by Julius Kun Institute, Mrs Olle presented the relative Certificate and badge to the director of the plant.

Senior Advisor of the Environmental Health Trust (USA) Robert Dubua Morris noted that activity of his organization is aimed at the environmental protection and protection of public from potential ecological threats. It can be achieved by wise planning of economic activity, wide implementation of clean, environmentally friendly innovative technologies during realization of big industrial projects.

Construction of petrochemical complex in Kiyanly, which can be easily called as an exemplary from protection of Caspian Sea environment and provision of favourable ecological situation for the residents of the region point of view, is exactly this project, the guest noted and awarded the Certificate and relevant sign to the director of the plant.

After, the floor was given to Energy Department Head of Paul Sherrer Scientific and Research Institute (Switzerland), Professor, Doctor Urs Veidmann. Having warmly congratulated the Head of Turkmenistan on successful completion of construction of innovative energy complex, the representative of the largest scientific centre of Switzerland awarded the Certificate of Stability and Efficiency and relative sign to the director of polymeric plant.

Having thanked the guests for awards and certificates, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov noted that he accepts it as the sign of high international rating of Turkmenistan, recognition of its success in use of innovative technologies during the construction of various facilities.

The President highlighted that large-scale industrial programme in the country is closely connected with environmental protection issues. Supporting the efforts of the world community for reduction of green gases emission, Turkmenistan pays great attention to wide implementation of modern environmentally safe and resource saving technologies in industry including in oil and gas, power energy and chemical spheres.

Having said that innovations and the best world practice would be introduced to all these spheres of the economy, the Head of the State expressed the gratitude for the recognition and support of the work carried out by Turkmenistan in this direction.

After, short video presentation about huge potential, success and achievements of national oil and gas complex was demonstrated to the participants on panoramic display in 360 degrees format with use of special effects and laser technology.

The culmination comes and under the applauses of the participants President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov starts the operation of polymeric plant pushing the button.

The monitors demonstrate the video, which was also made by special video equipment, about new facility and process of production of polyethylene and polypropylene. 
The State Concern Turkmengaz completed 3 billion 400 million US dollars project together with foreign partners – LG International and Hyundai Engineering (the Republic of Korea) as well as TOYO Engineering Corporation (Japan). Three side contract was signed during official visit of President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov to Japan in 2013.

The facility has modern equipment from Japan, the Republic of Korea, Great Britain, Belgium, Germany, Denmark and other European countries. It has four main technological installations – gas separation, ethane processing, polypropylene and polyethylene production units. All processes are automated and control form the central post.

Advanced engineering solutions were implemented during installation of auxiliary systems of sea water intake and desalination, utilization, treatment and recycled use of process water, steam, air and nitrogen production, fire system, etc. The complex is with power from gas turbine generator. It has warehouses for chemical agents and ready-made polymeric products.

Production of polymers at Liyanly petrochemical complex is based on modern technologies, which distinguishing feature is a deep extraction of all additional components from raw material by unique schemes. In particular, COREFLUX™ technology is used at gas separation unit, which provides efficient extraction of methane and ethane from natural gas as well as widely used technology for extraction of so called ‘sour gases’ and mercury mixtures.

The ethane unit is designed for processing of 685,000 tons of hydrocarbon materials per year.

It is worth mentioning that the facility has developed the production of high-density polyethylene from the polymerization reaction of ethylene under law pressure. Innovene™S technology, which is among the three of the most utilized technologies in the world petrochemical industry, is used in this case. The licence was issued by INEOS Technologies (UK), which is one of the biggest international corporations that has chemical facilities bought from such giant of the industry as BP, ICI and BASF. By the way, this is the first licence of Innovene™S from INEOS Technologies in Central Asia.

Open door and beneficial interstate cooperation policy of the President of Turkmenistan, high growth rates of national economy, large-scale programmes of development of industrial sector, favourable investment climate make good prepositions for activation of the partnership with foreign business circles and wide implementation of the world practice in many spheres, first in scientifically based and high technology branches.

This is visually indicated by the fact that project of construction of Kiyanly petrochemical complex received special award of TFX (UK) as one of the ten best projects of Europe and Asia, which is financed by export credit agencies.

Total amount of credit agreements signed by the State Bank for Foreign Economic Affairs of Turkmenistan with Japanese International Cooperation Bank, Export and Import Bank of Korea and the Syndicate of financial institutions of Japan, Germany, France, Korea, China, Italy, Austria and Switzerland participating in the project us more than 2.5 billion US dollars.

All of these visually illustrate the interest and willingness to investment and technological cooperation with Turkmenistan from big world business, which indicate the trust to our country as to reliable, stable and responsible partners with good reputation, high international authority and big perspectives of growth.

After, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov visited the section of ready-made production, which includes seven types of polyethylene and five types of polypropylene received in the process of adding of various components to polymeric material. This process, which is called compounding, gives the opportunity to modify the spectrum of the main features of polymeric item. Special equipment including the extruder is used for this important operation.

The granules of ready-made product go the warehouse where it is packed in bags of various weight.

Being very solid, durable and resistant to acids, bases, greases and oils as well as having excellent di electrical features, the polyethylene is used as a material for production of industrial and household products like films, plastic bags, pipes, cable insulation. Chemical containers, barrels, toys, dishware, kitchen and bathroom ware, sewing and furniture accessories, spares for vehicles and household equipment as well as big construction as playgrounds, wells, flyovers, etc. are made of the polyethylene.

Granulated polypropylene is highly requested at the world markets. The demand for this product is constantly growing in the last decade, which is related to several factors. This polymer is easy to process and has unique features like light weight, durability, resistance to high temperatures. Due to innovative technologies, there are more and more fields for its application. Wide variety of goods starting from packing film and plastic dishware to high technology details for cars and household electronics is made of polypropylene these days.

It is worth to mention that this summer, biaxial oriented polypropylene film facility with annual output of 21,000 tons has been put into operation at Turkmenbashy Refinery Complex.

As is known, the Garabogazkarbamid plant was opened one month ago in Caspian region with the participation of President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and today, the monitors installed at Kiyanly petrochemical complex demonstrated the footages of the shipment of the first batch of production exported from the Garabogazkarbamid plant.

After familiarization with this production section, the President of Turkmenistan left the entry in the Book of Honoured Guests.

Specialists of the complex expressed the gratitude to President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov for construction of modern production facility of petrochemical industry with comfort conditions for work of personnel and assured that they would work hard.

On behalf of the personnel of oil and gas industry, the Head of the State receive commemorative gift.

Having wished success in work to the personnel of the plant, the Head of the State presented them with the keys for new vehicles.

After, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov went to the place of tree planting event, having looked around the production facilities of new industrial giant on his way.

As per tradition, the Head of the state opened autumn green campaign, having planted the first tree. The participants of the event have joined the initiative of the President. Representative of all branches of national economy as well as diplomatic corps accredited in Turkmenistan and foreign guest took part in the event.

Mass tree planting event was carried out this day all around the country.

After all events, the President of Turkmenistan went to Turkmenbashy International Airport and flew to the capital.

The state news agency of Turkmenistan 

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“It is important that Georgia hosts a visit from such an important EU Member State, against the background of the challenges facing our country today. This visit is yet another proof of support for the Georgian government’s reforms, foreign policy course, European ad Euro-Atlantic integration and peace policy” - the Minister said.
According to David Zalkaliani, during the meetings with Angela Merkel, discussions will focus on bilateral relations, as well as co-operation in multilateral formats.
“It is necessary to ensure that the level of Georgia’s economic co-operation with Germany is in line with cooperative processes in defence and foreign dimensions. The fact that the visit is regional and Georgia is involved in a number of important infrastructural projects currently ongoing in the region once again indicates that Georgia is high on the German political agenda.