OREANDA-NEWS. October 27, 2008. United Nations Organisation – the largest and most authoritative international organization which declared achievement of global peace and wellbeing across the world to be its ultimate goal celebrated its 63rd anniversary of the.

By joining this worldwide organisation at the dawn of its independence Turkmenistan took an important step towards successful integration in the global system reaffirming the invariable course towards openness and active co-operation on the constructive and mutually respectful basis. It was Turkmenistan’s adherence to building the harmonious intergovernmental relations that predetermined to a large extent the gaining of the status of neutrality delegated by the United Nations and supported by 185 countries of the world.

Over these years Turkmenistan stands as an active upholder of enhancement of the UN’s authority aimed at strengthening and facilitating the positive tendencies in building the non-confrontation, non-violent model of world. Addressing the 62nd session of the UN General Assembly last autumn President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov stated that co-operation with the United Nations remained a governing vector of Turkmenistan’s foreign policy thus predetermining a number of the important steps to intensify traditional co-operation. These include opening the UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy – a reliable bulwark of the United Nations standing as an essential factor of security and sustainable development in the Central Asian region.

Today at the new stage of development our country demonstrates the qualitatively new approaches to problems and challenges of the modern world declaring itself the state advocating wide international co-operation. That is vividly evidenced by the Turkmen leader’s initiative welcomed worldwide on security of transnational transportation links, particularly pipeline infrastructure.

On the basis of the priorities of national development the legal field is a strategic field of Turkmenistan-UN constructive co-operation. Being a full member of the world community nowadays Turkmenistan resolutely advances towards improving the democratic and legal foundation of the Turkmen statehood, actively implementing the international law norms in the national legislation. With every passing day the processes of further democratization of the country’s social and political life, establishment of the civil society institutions, introduction of the electoral mechanisms that will be illustrated by the parliamentary elections this December.

Turkmenistan-UN co-operation is based on the 2005-2009 United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) signed by the Government of Turkmenistan and the UN agencies in Turkmenistan. The joint activity under this large-scale joint programme embraces such key fields as local government, healthcare, education, the rights of children, wide introduction of information and communication technologies, environmental protection, drug trafficking control, border management and control, aid to refugees and migrants. The significance of this document is that aimed at tackling the global problems in the framework of the UN Millennium Development Goals it completely complies with Turkmenistan’s national priorities and interests set forth in the National Strategy of Economic, Political and Cultural Development of Turkmenistan till 2020.

Today the authoritative international organisation is represented in Turkmenistan by UN Development Programme (UNDP), UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), UN Population Fund (UNFPA), World Health Organisation (WHO), UN Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and other agencies which build co-operation with Turkmen partners in the light of sustainable human development that the state adhering to the Turkmen leader’s policy of reforms and fundamental changes creates the necessary conditions for, political stability and sustainable economic growth in particular.