The Turkmen news publication reports that the editorial office received a document in which the decisions of the Extraordinary Commission of Turkmenistan for Combating the Spread of Diseases following the meeting on April 9 were recorded.

The Commission decided to allow entry and exit from Turkmenistan to a number of Turkmen and foreign citizens:

• In connection with the forthcoming visit to Turkmenistan of a delegation from China headed by Minister of Defense Wei Fenghe , on April 23, the military attache at the Embassy of Turkmenistan in the PRC will return home. He will return to China on May 3;

On March 25, Fenghe held an online meeting with Turkmenistan's Defense Minister Begench Gundogdyev , during which he stated that "China attaches great importance to relations with Turkmenistan and will always be a close friend and reliable partner of the Central Asian country, no matter how the international situation changes."

• From April 23 to May 1, six specialists from the United Nations Population Fund will visit Turkmenistan to provide technical assistance in preparing the population census. They will arrive from Frankfurt;

• On April 11-14, Adviser to the Prime Minister of Armenia Artashes Tumanyan will visit Turkmenistan through the Gaudan checkpoint on the border with Iran. will visit Turkmenistan through the Gaudan checkpoint on the border with Iran ;

• In April-June, four crew members and three representatives of the technical staff of the new Presidential Boeing 737 with tail number EZ-A700 will take the aircraft out for maintenance and return it back according to a contract with King Aerospace Commercial Corporation.

From the investigation of the "Chronicles of Turkmenistan" it follows that Turkmenistan received this aircraft less than three years ago, in September 2019. Since that time, it has rarely been used. For an unclear reason, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov has often preferred to fly the new passenger Boeing 777-200LR tail number EZ-A780, although the presidential fleet also has a Boeing 777 in VVIP configuration (EZ-A777).

• employees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan are allowed to travel to Afghanistan, Turkey, Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates to introduce an electronic document management system in the country's diplomatic missions;

• 19 foreign specialists are allowed to enter Turkmenistan for technical maintenance of textile enterprises;

• Turkish company Ronesans is allowed to obtain four visas for its employees in April-May;

• In April, a specialist from the Turkmen construction company Ajaýyp gurlusyk will travel to Tashkent to examine medical equipment for a 450-bed multidisciplinary hospital and a 150-bed oncology clinic under construction in Dashoguz;

• 27 people who worked in the Turkmen pavilion at the EXPO-2020 exhibition will return from Dubai to Turkmenistan ;

• Consul General of Turkmenistan in Herat Aimyrat Gochmyradov , Consul General of Turkmenistan in Mazar-i-Sharif Bazarbai Kabaev and consular driver Sapargeldy Geldiyev are allowed to enter Turkmenistan are allowed to enter Turkmenistan ;

• On April 20, 100 citizens of Turkmenistan are allowed to return to their homeland through the Dashoguz checkpoint. They will be placed in a three-week quarantine;

• Following requests from the relevant embassies, 33 Turkmen citizens with residence permits or immigrant visas are allowed to travel to the US, Germany and Armenia;

• 16 citizens of Turkmenistan are allowed to travel to foreign clinics for treatment, and five Turkmen citizens will be able to return to their homeland due to their state of health;

• At the request of the Russian Foreign Ministry, citizen A.R. allowed to enter Turkmenistan to care for her sick mother E.A.;

• at the checkpoints "Sarakhs" (Iran) and "Farab" (Uzbekistan), foreign drivers may start to pass . At the moment, freight transportation within Turkmenistan is carried out only by local truck drivers.

In addition to issuing permits for entry and exit from the country, the commission decided to resume the work of theaters , cinemas, the circus, the Mukams Palace, the National Museum of Wildlife and other cultural institutions from April 11. The Ministry of Sports and Youth Policy was instructed to study the possibility of holding championships and championships in various sports, with the exception of swimming, without the presence of spectators in the stands.

Source: Chronicles of Turkmenistan