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05 December 2024

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Turkmen-Iranian Tourism Festival Held in Ashgabat

The Second Turkmen-Iranian Tourism Festival united representatives from the two states' tourism industry, cultural figures, and craftsmen. The opening ceremony was held in the Exhibition Hall of the Academy of Arts of Turkmenistan in Ashgabat. During the ceremony, visitors familiarized themselves with Iran's rich tourism potential, saw the works of Iranian craftsmen, and evaluated the proposals of Turkmen tourist companies. The festival's business program included a professional conference. Experts discussed the prospects of bilateral cooperation and new opportunities for increasing tourist flow between the countries. The organizers paid special attention to the cultural component of the event. The festival is designed to strengthen cultural ties between Turkmenistan and Iran and create a platform for the development of joint tourism projects. Earlier, the Academy of Arts of Turkmenistan exhibition hall hosted the opening of the Turkmen-Iranian Specialized Exhibition of Fashion and Clothing. The visitors could experience the latest achievements in Turkmenistan and Iran's fashion and textile industries. The first Turkmen-Iranian Tourism Festival was held in October last year. Visitors familiarized themselves with unique items of traditional folk crafts, handmade art products, national heritage, and modern trends of Turkmen and Iranian art masters.

Almaty to Host Exhibition of Afghan Products

Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Trade and Integration has announced that an exhibition of Afghan carpets, jewelry, construction materials, household and industrial chemicals, vegetables, fruit, and food products will run from October 20 -22, at the Atakent Exhibition Center in Almaty. Afghanistan’s TOLOnews reported that a delegation led by the Taliban Minister of Industry and Commerce and 250 Afghan traders will participate in the exhibition. Akhundzada Abdul Salam Jawad, spokesperson for the Afghan Ministry of Industry and Commerce, further confirmed that 69 companies from Afghanistan will participate in the exhibition, with displays promoting various products, including carpets, dried fruit, saffron, and precious and semi-precious stones. Early in June, Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev announced that his country had removed the Taliban from its list of terrorist organizations, in a move to develop trade and economic ties with Afghanistan. In late August, Kazakhstan’s Foreign Ministry then accredited a chargé d’affaires of Taliban-led Afghanistan to expand trade, financial, and humanitarian cooperation between the two countries.

Silk Roads Curators Push Boundaries in London

The curators of the Silk Roads exhibition at the British Museum got out of their comfort zones to create the show, which traces the intricate ties and overlapping networks linking Asia, Europe and Africa centuries ago. The lead image of the exhibition is the silhouette of a camel caravan that evokes romanticized notions of Silk Road trade, but the curators wanted to go further, exploring the geographic sweep of the routes along which people, objects and ideas moved over many generations. The London show, which opened in late September and runs until Feb. 23, 2025, includes objects from nearly all the museum’s collection departments as well as items on loan from Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and other places. Silk Roads has received generally positive reviews and some raves. There are a few critics. William Dalrymple, a prominent historian whose most recent book is “The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed The World,” said the show didn’t give enough attention to India. Last week, the curators said in a presentation that the connectivity and expansiveness of the project could be a model for exhibitions on other topics even as it hewed to rigorous scientific research involving British Museum experts and international specialists from other institutions. The Silk Road exhibition “goes beyound the norm in its experimental approach to tell big stories in a museum setting,” curator Luk Yu-ping said, adding that it was the first major show at the British Museum led by a team of three curators from different departments and with different fields of knowledge. “Each of us has had to step beyond our comfort zones and stretch well beyond our areas of expertise,” said Luk, an expert in Chinese paintings and prints as well as Central Asia collections. The result, she said, is an exhibition that “shows the potential for reimagining permanent displays and further developing partnerships and future projects” involving the British Museum. Another curator, Sue Brunning, said the layout of the Silk Roads show tries to evoke a winding journey through distant lands. “The design of the exhibition is quite open with no walls and  few barriers, and this is also to emphasize the connectivity between the different regions,” said Brunning, an archaeologist who specializes in early medieval European collections. Visitors can see for long distances down the gallery, and the different heights of the displays give an idea of the terrain, according to Brunning. There are also large images of the sea, mountains and other natural environments that give a sense of what people were traversing at the time, as well as an “ambient soundscape of environmental and travel sounds,” she said. The third curator is Elisabeth R. O'Connell, a specialist in ancient Egypt and the Byzantine period. She did not participate in the talk. While the Silk Roads network lasted for millennia, the British Museum is focusing on a relatively narrow slice of it - the period between AD 500 and AD 1,000, when contacts accelerated and flourished. Luk said museums in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan loaned...

Uzbekkosmos and NASA Unite for World Space Week Celebrations in Uzbekistan

The Uzbekkosmos agency has announced a series of events in celebration of World Space Week, which will take place in Uzbekistan from October 4 to 10. This global event, commemorated in nearly 100 countries, was established by a UN General Assembly resolution in 1999, recognizing the importance of space exploration. As part of the World Space Week festivities, Uzbekkosmos is launching several major initiatives. A key highlight is a special exhibition on space history at the Tashkent City Mall Trade and Entertainment Center, which will open its doors on October 4. In addition, on October 5 and 6, Uzbekkosmos, in collaboration with NASA, will host the NASA Space Apps Challenge 2024 hackathon. This event will take place at the Turin Polytechnic University in Tashkent, where over 200 young innovators, organized into approximately 40 teams, will showcase their creative projects.

Tajikistan to Host First International Tourism Exhibition

To coincide with World Tourism Day, Tajikistan will host its first International Tourism Exhibition (DITE) in Dushanbe from September 25 to 27, 2024. Initiated by the city's head, Rustami Emomali, the key aims of the event are to promote the development of the tourism industry and the formation of a regional tourism market, and attract foreign investment. The exhibition will bring together Tajikistan's tourism companies as well as representatives of tourist industries in countries including Austria, Pakistan, Iran, Russia, Belarus, Turkey, China, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Qatar, and Uzbekistan, and will be complemented by an International Tourism Forum and B2B meetings where new cooperation agreements will be signed. In addition, consulting sessions will provide opportunities for hotel businesses and guides to improve their levels of service and professionalism in the industry. As reported by the Committee for Tourism Development of Tajikistan to ASIA-Plus, 748.3 thousand foreigners, of which 91.9% were residents of CIS countries, visited Tajikistan within the first six months of this year. The number of tourists totaled 580.5 thousand, 422,614 of whom hailed from neighboring Uzbekistan, rose by 19.1% compared to the same period last year.  

Turkmenistan Hosts European Exhibition on Energy-Saving

An ambitious and multi-faceted  traveling exhibition “Transition to Renewable Energy Sources—Energy of the Future” has just opened at the Technology Center of the Academy of Sciences of Turkmenistan. As reported by “Turkmenistan: Golden Age”, the exhibition, curated by  the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ), presents the various means and  measures developed by European countries to save energy. Divided into five sections, the exhibition provides a hands-on exploration of energy efficiency practices through interactive touch panels and  by immersing themselves in virtual reality, visitors can envisage the world in the future. The exhibition highlights the multilevel aspects, challenges, and potential of the global energy transition from society, politics, economics, and science perspectives, and during its tour, aims to encourage widespread dialogue and an exchange of knowledge and views on decarbonization and global energy transition. Regarding the tour,  project manager Yasmine Deren, stated, “This exhibition started three years ago and has already visited Europe, Asia, the Gulf States and in Central Asia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. We are happy that the exhibition is now being shown in Ashgabat,  Turkmenistan and afterwards, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan." The exhibition will be displayed Monday - Saturday in Ashgabat until 25 June and thereafter, in Turkmenistan's city of Mary.