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international organization, and there- quality and is constant over time. rights, ecology and environmental
fore contributes to the country's po- Today, it serves as a mechanism for protection, which were put forward
litical influence in world affairs. The combining geopolitical interests; it is at the sixty-ninth session of the UN
foreign policy of neutral Turkmenis- an important factor in guaranteeing General Assembly in 2014. Particu-
tan not only allows it to be involved regional stability and establishing a lar ideas are the founding of a Sub-
actively in the geopolitical and geo- civilized dialogue in a constructive Regional UN Disarmament Centre
economic processes, but also serves manner. This has been shown by the in Asia and the organization of a
as a catalyst for them, contributing country's international initiatives on Forum for Security and Peace in
to the creation of a new architecture protecting and strengthening world Central Asia, which Turkmenistan
for the world order. peace and security, cooperation in proposes to hold in Ashgabat during
the energy and transport sector, 2015.
Turkmenistan's neutrality promotes humanitarian affairs and human
A number of constructive ideas and
proposals were announced by Pres-
ident Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov
of Turkmenistan at summits held in
Dushanbe and Astrakhan. Thus, a
whole range of the President's ini-
tiatives at the Astrakhan Summit
of Heads of the Caspian Countries
were aimed at making the Caspian
Region a peaceful one, and an im-
portant component in internatio-
nal strategic stability and security.
This is an example of how to re-
solve all issues exclusively through
political and diplomatic channels
on the basis of respect for sove-
reignty and the territorial integrity
of States. As many people are aware,
Turkmenistan has also initiated
the development of important do-
cuments, such as the Agreement
on the Conservation and Sustai-
nable Use of the Marine Biological
Resources of the Caspian Sea and the
Agreement on Cooperation in the

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