Turkmenistan, Ashgabat, Feb.19 / Trend H.Hasanov /
"The formation of opposition parties will be important for the socio-political life of the country," Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov said at a governmental meeting
Only the Democratic Party headed by Berdimuhamedov has functioned in Turkmenistan thus far.
According to Berdimuhamedov, active participation of new parties in a country's socio-political processes will create competition for the Turkmen Democratic Party.
"Interested can put forward the initiative to establish a new political party and to pass registration in 2010, in accordance with the county's Constitution," Berdimuhamedov added
"This may be an agrarian political party of political or any other direction," the Turkmen media reported.
"However, to bring our country to the deserving positions in the global community, based on the mentality of our people, to strive to meet the challenges in the economic, social, domestic and human development to take the worthy place in the world community are the general objectives of the newly established parties which units all us and must remain unchanged," Berdimuhamedov said
"Tolerance and commitment is the basis of the mentality of our people. They cause reasoning, suspension and constructive nature of the deployed political reforms in the country. We do not hurry and not artificially create and accelerate the socio-political processes in our society to suit anyone's interests," Berdimuhamedov underscored.