Yesterday, Turkmenistan’s Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov held a meeting with the UN Resident Coordinators in Central Asian countries: Dmitry Shlapachenko in Turkmenistan, Stephen O’Malley in Kazakhstan, Christine Antje Grawe in Kyrgyzstan and Sabine Mahl in Uzbekistan. This was reported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan.

It was noted that the UN plays a key role in strengthening peace, security, human rights and sustainable development in the region. In recent years, Central Asia has become a platform for the implementation and scaling of many UN initiatives in the field of combating climate change, water and food security, gender equality, digitalization of public services, education and healthcare.

Among the practical regional integration, the work on the creation of the Regional Center for Climate Change Technologies in Central Asia, the activities of the Central Asian Youth Dialogue, as well as the first joint training for young diplomats of Central Asia in Ashgabat were named.

Turkmenistan takes an active part in the discussion of priority issues on the regional and global agenda and the development of optimal ways to solve them, striving to realize its peacekeeping and creative potential for the common good.

The activities of the UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asian countries were discussed separately, the source notes.