Final Declaration adopted at the First Ministerial Meeting of the Group of Friends of Neutrality for Peace, Security and Sustainable Development published in the six official UN languages (A/77/778 - see document below) as an official document of the 77th session of the UN General Assembly under agenda item 58 “Peacebuilding and sustaining peace”. The ministerial meeting of the Group of Friends of Neutrality was held in Ashgabat on December 10, 2022. The adopted Declaration consolidates th...

On March 7, the UN Security Council held an Open Debate on the theme “Women, Peace and Security: Towards the 25th Anniversary of Resolution 1325”. The debate, held at the initiative of the Republic of Mozambique (Chair of the UN Security Council in March 2023), was attended by more than 80 delegations of member countries, most of which take part in the regular session of the Commission on the Status of Women that taking place in New York on March 6-17. The heads of delegations drew special...

On March 7, 2023, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan V.Hajiyev met with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Chile to Turkmenistan (with residence in Ankara) Rodrigo Enrique Arcos, who arrived in Ashgabat on a working visit. In frames of the presentation of copies of credentials, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan expressed his readiness to provide the newly appointed amba...

On March 7, 2023, a meeting was held in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan with representatives of the Decent Work Technical Support Team and the ILO Country Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, as well as the headquarters of the International Labor Organization in Geneva. During the meeting, the parties considered topical issues of cooperation between Turkmenistan and the ILO. Attention was paid to the participation of Turkmenistan in conventions and treaties through t...

Today, on March 6, 2023, the 17th meeting of the Intergovernmental Turkmen-Uzbek Commission on Trade-economic, Scientific-technical and Cultural Cooperation was held in Ashgabat. The Turkmen part of the meeting was attended by the heads of ministries and departments of the country headed by the Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan B. Atdaev; the Uzbek delegation was headed by the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan Zh. Khodzhaev. During the meeting, t...

Mr. Under-Secretary-General Voronkov, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Colleagues Let me express my gratitude to His Excellency Under-Secretary-General Vladimir Voronkov for the informative and very timely briefing today. We are on the way to the eighth review of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy. Our preparation process and review meetings make this Strategy a dynamic document adjusted to every Member States’ counter-terrorism priorities. I commend...

(Baku, March 2, 2023) Heads and members of delegations! Ladies and gentlemen, First of all, let me express my gratitude to the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan His Excellency Ilham Aliyev for the initiative to convene this Summit, its excellent organization and hospitality. The consequences of the coronavirus pandemic today are one of the most pressing and serious challenges of our time. And this problem, of course, is not limited to purely medical aspects – it directly affect...