It is a great pleasure to express my warmest congratulations on the 26th anniversary of the Neutrality of Turkmenistan. December 12th is an important date for the Turkmen people, as it is a significant landmark in the history of Turkmenistan, and neutrality plays a central role in foreign policy. Allow me to briefly mention that the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution declaring the year 2021 as the “International Year of Peace and Trust”. I understand that this conference...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan reports that Turkmenistan is following with concern the events taking place in recent days in the Republic of Kazakhstan. Based on centuries-old ties of friendship and brotherhood, good neighborly relations and relations of strategic partnership, we are sincerely interested in the soonest normalization of the situation in the country, in the further stable socio-political and socio-economic development of Kazakhstan. We express a firm belief...

On the 11th of December, 2021, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rasdid Meredov met with the Head of the Regional Representation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Central Asia Sangeeta Koenig, who arrived to the Turkmen capital. In the framework of the meeting the parties exchanged views on the issues of the current state of interaction of Turkmenistan with the ICRC on key directions. In particular, the issues of the implementation of international humani...

On December 11, 2021, there held a meeting of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov with the Director General of the Islamic Organization for Food Security (IOFS) Yerlan Baidaulet, who arrived to Ashgabat for participation in the International Conference “Peace and Trust Policy – Basis of International Security, Stability and Development”. In the course of the talk the parties discussed important issues of interaction of Turkmenistan with the IOFS and prospects of the...

Today, on December 11, International Conference “Peace and Trust Policy – Basis of International Security, Stability and Development” continued its work in plenary sessions. The first plenary session “Policy of Peace and Trust: Neutrality and Preventive Diplomacy in Peacebuilding” was held at the Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan in a hybrid format. Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Central Asia, the Head of the UN Reg...

On December 11, 2021, at the International University for Humanities and Development of Turkmenistan in the framework of the International Conference "Peace and Trust Policy – Basis of International Security, Stability and Development" was held a plenary session on "Human dimension of the processes of building a universal culture of peace and trust". The session was moderated by Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Doctor, Rector of the International University for Humanities and Dev...

On December 11, 2021, at the Turkmen State University named after Magtymguly within the framework of the International Conference «Peace and Trust Policy – Basis of International Security, Stability and Development» was held a plenary session on «Inseparable link between a culture of peace and sustainable development agenda». During the meeting, the UN Resident Coordinator in Turkmenistan, D.Shlapachenko, moderated the session. Also, V.Gutsu, UN Food and Agriculture Organization Subregiona...