On March 14, President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov, who was on a working visit to Japan, met with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in the frames of the III United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction. The meeting was held in the Sendai International Center, which hosted the global forum. In the course of the meeting, an interest-based exchange of opinions was held on the priority trends of interaction between Turkmenistan and the United Nations Organization in the context of a present-day situation and future prospects. Having focused attention on the agenda of the global forum, the head of Turkmen state and the UN Secretary-General have expressed confidence that its outcomes, first of all, a new post-2015 Framework Program, will contribute to strengthening positive international cooperation for achieving the goals of universal sustainable development and progress. In this connection, President Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov stressed that our country would continue to actively facilitate combined efforts within the UN, aimed to create effective mechanisms and work out well-balanced approaches to tackling the challenges that are concern of the entire world community. In this context, Turkmenistan stands for optimization of cooperation within the UN, formation of effective instruments of regional and global partnership, including with the aim to reduce risks, to timely prevent natural disasters and their negative consequences, to adapt to a new present-day situation connected with climate change. In particular, our country has put forward a proposal to establish a specialized agency under the aegis of the United Nations – the Regional Center for technologies related to climate change in Central Asia, for the activity of which the Turkmen side is ready to provide necessary infrastructure. Another example is the Turkmenistan-initiated important draft document – Agreement for Cooperation in the prevention and management of emergency situations in the Caspian Sea, signed together with other documents at the IV Astrakhan Summit of heads of state of the Caspian Sea littoral states in last year’s September. Turkmenistan’s constantly active stand on the within-said issues was confirmed in the speech of President Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov at the global forum in Sendai. Highlighting the topicality of the World Conference agenda, the nation’s leader has emphasized the appropriateness of considering combined actions and efforts aimed to reduce risks of disasters, as well as to eliminate their consequences in the context of common objectives, the world community faces in the field of sustainable development.