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On Thursday, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov received Special Representative of the UN Secretary General Natalya Gherman, head of the Regional Center for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA).

“It was not by chance that Central Asia became the first region of the world in which a comprehensive and integrated implementation of the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy began on a systematic basis,” said the head of the delegation of Turkmenistan, Deputy Foreign Minister Vepa Khadzhiev, speaking at the High-Level International Conference dedicated to the 10th anniversary of implementation of the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy in Central Asia.

On Thursday, at a high-level conference in Tashkent, official delegations from the Central Asian countries approved an updated Joint Action Plan for the implementation of the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy in the region, thereby agreeing to combat the root causes of terrorism and violent extremism.

The International Investment Forum "Oil and Gas of Turkmenistan" (OGT 2022) will be held on March 29-30 in Ashgabat and Dubai.

The General Council of the World Trade Organizations considered on Wednesday the application of Turkmenistan for accession to the WTO and decided to grant Turkmenistan the status of an acceding country ("active observer") to the WTO.

The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and Turkmenistan adopted a joint statement on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two states, celebrated in 2022.

Ashgabat aims to further develop and expand relations with Moscow. Turkmen Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov stated this on Tuesday at the opening of talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, TASS reports.

On Monday, President Berdimuhamedov, during a working meeting with the participation of a number of vice-premiers, heads of regional administrations and Ashgabat, signed an order to send a delegation of Turkmenistan to Moscow on February 21-22, before emphasizing that multiformat interaction with such a strategic partner as Russia is the most important direction of the country's foreign policy strategy.

By the decision of the Mejlis Milli Gengesh, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov was awarded the distinction “Türkmenistanyň ussat diplomaty” for his huge contribution to increasing the authority of Turkmenistan in the international arena.

On February 22, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will hold talks with his Turkmen counterpart Rashid Meredov, who will arrive in Russia on a working visit. This was announced by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova at a briefing on Wednesday.