The final declaration adopted at the first ministerial meeting of the Group of Friends of Neutrality for Peace, Security and Sustainable Development is published in the six official languages of the UN as an official document of the 77th session of the UN General Assembly under agenda item 58 “Peacebuilding and maintaining peace”. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan.
The adopted Declaration consolidates the following format and methods of work of the Group of Friends, created at the initiative of Turkmenistan in 2020:
- The Group of Friends is informal and open-ended and, accordingly, its membership will be regularly updated as States Members of the United Nations, observers to the United Nations General Assembly and United Nations entities express their desire and willingness to join;
- The Group of Friends will meet regularly - at least once every six months - at the ambassadorial level in New York. At the request of its members, extraordinary meetings may be held to discuss specific issues;
- Meetings of the Group of Friends at the level of Ministers for Foreign Affairs will be held once a year at a pre-agreed location;
- Coordination of the work of the Group of Friends will be entrusted to two Co-Chairs (Turkmenistan and any other member country that wishes to become a Co-Chair) for a period of one year, and after this period, coordination powers will be transferred according to the principle of geographical rotation.
