Head of the UN Regional Center for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (RCPDCA) Natalia German congratulated President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and the people of Turkmenistan on the 30th anniversary of the country's accession to the UN, which was celebrated on March 2.

In a message published in today's issue of the newspaper “Neutral Turkmenistan”, the diplomat noted that for three decades as a full member of the UN, independent Turkmenistan continues to make a worthy contribution to raising the authority and strengthening the potential of the Organization, as well as to the implementation of the goals and objectives laid down in its Charter.

According to Natalia German, Turkmenistan is increasingly actively participating and promoting the agenda of peace, development and cooperation at the global and regional levels, offering constructive solutions to a number of the most complex global and regional problems of our time.

“In turn, the UN supports Turkmenistan's efforts in implementing reforms in the political, socio-economic and environmental spheres for the benefit of improving the well-being of the Turkmen people, as well as cultural and spiritual revival as the basis for the formation of a new image of Turkmenistan, strengthening its independence, neutrality and sovereignty,” the diplomat noted.

In her opinion, one of the clearest manifestations of Turkmenistan's peace-loving foreign policy aimed at preserving and strengthening regional stability and security in Central Asia is undoubtedly the co-authorship in the creation of the UN Regional Center for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia in 2007 and the location of its Headquarters in the capital of Turkmenistan.

“I would like to take this opportunity to emphasize the inseparability of the concepts of “neutrality” and “preventive diplomacy” and to thank you separately for your personal comprehensive support of the Center's activities since its foundation,” the head of the UN Regional Center for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia stressed.

She also noted that Turkmenistan is actively involved in promoting preventive diplomacy, searching for mutually acceptable mechanisms to respond to common challenges of international terrorism and violent extremism, drug trafficking, in adapting to climate change and improving the environment, as well as in developing common approaches of the countries of the region in relation to Afghanistan.

Natalia German expressed confidence that the strong foundation of Turkmenistan's mutually beneficial relations with the UN, including with the RSPDCA, laid over the past years, will continue to contribute to the common aspirations to turn the region into a zone of stability, sustainable development and prosperity.