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Turkmenistan marks Day of Neutrality

Turkmenistan Materials 12 December 2011 14:39 (UTC +04:00)
President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhammadov on Monday congratulated his compatriots with the national holiday - Day of Neutrality marked on Dec.12, the Turkmen government said.
Turkmenistan marks Day of Neutrality

Turkmenistan, Ashgabat, Dec.12 / Trend, H. Hasanov /

President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhammadov on Monday congratulated his compatriots with the national holiday - Day of Neutrality marked on Dec.12, the Turkmen government said.

"Let this great holiday, symbolizing the triumph of our nation's age-old principles - gentleness, peacefulness, friendship and humanity bring each family happiness and pride to our great country!" President Berdimuhammadov's appeal says.

A resolution on the recognition and support to the status of Turkmenistan's permanent neutrality, unanimously approved at the UN General Assembly's 50th session by 185 nations, was adopted sixteen years ago on Dec.12, 1995.

President Berdimuhammadov stressed that "Turkmenistan is consistently committed to the status of permanent neutrality, in fact, arguing that peacefulness and good-neighborliness principles form the core of its foreign policy strategy".

In due time, Ashgabat became the venue for a number of inter-Tajik and inter-Afghan negotiations.

Ashgabat believes that neutrality is to develop a political program to address the issues existing in the Central Asian region and beyond to create favourable conditions for sustainable development and progress.

Turkmen leadership links its regional economic projects with ensuring peace and security,
economic progress in the region of South and Central Asia.

Tejan-Sarakhs-Mashad railway, two branches of the pipeline laid in Iran, as well as "Turkmenistan-China" gas pipeline are mentioned among these projects.

Construction of a branch of "North-South" transport corridor is underway.

Agreement on the implementation of project on the construction of Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India gas pipeline is another clear evidence of the practical realization of our positive neutrality policy, President Berdimuhammadov said in his address.

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