On April 3, Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers Hojamyrat Geldimyradov reported at a government meeting on the macroeconomic indicators for the first quarter of the current year, according to the e-newspaper “Turkmenistan: Golden age.” During the reporting period, the GDP growth rate reached 6.3 percent, with sectoral performance as follows: industrial complex – 2.4 percent, construction – 6 percent, transport and communications – 10.3 percent, trade – 8.3 percent, agriculture – 2.4 percent, and services – 8.3 percent. In state institutions funded from the budget and self-financing, salaries were paid on time, along with pensions, state benefits, and student scholarships. Compared to the same period of the previous year, capital investments utilized from all sources of financing increased by 5.3 percent during the reporting period. Summarizing the report, President Serdar Berdimuhamedov emphasized the importance of steadily improving the performance of the economic, financial, and banking sectors. In this regard, the head of state instructed the Deputy Prime Minister to continue taking measures to maintain stable GDP growth and to keep strict control over the rational and targeted use of budgetary funds.