ISLAMABAD -UNS:As a responsible member of the international community, Turkmenistan, consistently puts forward new international initiatives aimed at achieving the high ideals and goals of the United Nations. The upcoming 81st session of the UN General Assembly is envisioned to serve as an important platform for consolidating the international community’s efforts to address current issues of peacebuilding, international security, and sustainable development.
Being an active participant in international processes, Turkmenistan will, within the framework of the 81st session of the UN General Assembly, present its vision for addressing the most pressing and urgent challenges facing humanity and propose concrete initiatives aimed at effectively resolving them.
The most important principles of the foreign policy of Turkmenistan have been and remain a firm commitment to its universally recognized status of neutrality, comprehensive support for constructive dialogue aimed at strengthening peace, stability, and security, as well as the development of effective regional and interregional cooperation.
The basis of Turkmenistan’s strategic cooperation with the United Nations is the peace-building essence of neutrality and the convergence of fundamental goals aimed at preserving peace, strengthening international security, and ensuring sustainable development, taking into consideration national, regional, and global interests. Programmed actions are also aimed at strengthening mechanisms of preventive diplomacy, as evidenced by the set of multilateral documents of the UN General Assembly adopted upon the initiative of Turkmenistan and the constructive work of the UN Regional Center for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia with headquarters in Ashgabat.
Turkmenistan will continue to consistently promote ideas and initiatives on present issues of global politics and to strengthen the role of institutional capacity, as well as effective instruments of neutrality throughout the 81st session of the UN General Assembly. In doing so, the focus will be on strengthening the legal and humanistic foundations of international politics, fully recognizing the importance of a world free of war for future generations, traditions and best practices of mutually trusting dialogue in the interest of security and sustainable development. These priorities once again demonstrate ’s commitment to the principles of openness, goodwill, and constructive collaboration, and serve as a proof of Turkmenistan’s serious and responsible approach, as a UN Member State, to jointly addressing the most pressing challenges of the modern world.
In this work, Turkmenistan relies on multifaceted cooperation with the United Nations, its bodies, specialized agencies, and other international organizations.
Turkmenistan views the upcoming session of the General Assembly as an important step in consolidating the international community’s efforts to strengthen peace, stability, and security.
For many years, our country has consistently put forward important initiatives in this area within the framework of the United Nations and its agencies. Among them, the resolutions “Peace and Trust”, “Dialogue as a Guarantee of Peace” and “The Role and Importance of a Policy of Neutrality in Maintaining and Strengthening International Peace, Security and Sustainable Development”.
At the upcoming session of the General Assembly, Turkmenistan plans to hold, under the umbrella of the UN, intergovernmental consultations on the development of a Strategy for Universal Peace based on the principles of peace, security, and preventive diplomacy.
To promote a comprehensive approach to strengthening international peace and security, our country stands for further development of a culture of trust, dialogue, and preventive diplomacy. In this regard, Turkmenistan will propose declaring 2027 – 2037 the United Nations Decade of Dialogue and Preventive Diplomacy.
In addition, our country will propose the establishment, within the framework of the United Nations, of a Group of Friends of Multilateralism and the Sovereign Equality of States.
In order to implement the proposal of President Serdar Berdimuhamedov to establish the University of Peace and Neutrality, relevant work continues with the United Nations and its agencies. As the next step in this regard, consultations are planned on the establishment of an Academic Center for Peace, Neutrality, and Preventive Diplomacy under the Department of Peace and Neutrality at the Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan.
