International “Mother Nature” art exhibition opens in Ashgabat

An opening ceremony for the international art exhibition “Mother Nature” was held in Ashgabat. Attending were Oguljahan Atayeva, vice-president for medical activities of the Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov Charity Fund for Children in Need of Guardianship; Leyla Aliyeva, vice-president of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation of Azerbaijan; and Saida Mirziyoyeva, head of the Presidential Administration of Uzbekistan.

Aliyeva arrived in Turkmenistan a day earlier, on 19 October. Mirziyoyeva arrived in Ashgabat on the day of the ceremony and was welcomed at the airport by Atayeva. A trilateral meeting was held at the Oguzkent hotel. Atayeva said Turkmenistan holds mass tree-planting campaigns each autumn and spring under its National Forest Programme, with millions of saplings planted.

Aliyeva praised Turkmenistan's work in ecology and in fostering love of nature among young people, and noted wide prospects for exchanging experience and joint projects. Mirziyoyeva said relations between Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan in the cultural and humanitarian sphere had reached new heights.