Today the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan has hosted a briefing to discuss the outcomes of the talks that took place between President Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres during his working visit to Turkmenistan. Representatives of the diplomatic corps accredited to Turkmenistan, relevant UN agencies, foreign and national mass media were among those attending the briefing. As noted, Turkmenistan’s home and foreign policy is closely interlinked with the United Nations’ priority goals and objectives, first and foremost, the ones aimed at ensuring universal peace, security and sustainable development. Seeking to put its peacekeeping capacity and constructive potential for the benefit of all humanity, the Turkmen state is demonstrating qualitatively new approaches to tackling today’s pressing issues, and is promoting wider international cooperation. The initiatives announced by President Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov from the rostrum of the United Nations and fully supported by the global community stand as eloquent testimony to this. The Ashgabat summit talks have become an important step towards strengthening constructive interaction with authoritative international and regional organizations. Turkmenistan is consistently fostering the partnership with the United Nations, and is actively cooperating in the following areas: energy, ecology, water management and others on a global basis. All-out efforts are being made to create conditions for the diversification of foreign economic, trade, cultural-humanitarian ties, economic growth, and the provision of quality-of-life improvement to the population. The briefing focused much attention on advancing the initiatives by the head of Turkmenistan in the energy sector in the context of creating an international and legal mechanism for safe transit of energy resources. Proposed by our country, the international dialogue on energy transportation is taking on an extensive and regular character. The briefing participants also noted that at the present stage our country is actively pursuing transport diplomacy based on the principles of diversification in the transport-communications sector and realization of transit potential. Ecology and the environment protection was another topic for discussion that drew many insightful comments. Highlighting the particular importance of the agreements reached during the summit meeting between President Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the attendees highly praised cooperation in this area, including in the context of our country’s chairmanship of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea. As noted, the Turkmenistan-UN partnership agenda also includes the following strategic areas: counterterrorism, disarmament issues, the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, and a number of other issues. According to the meeting participants, the issues testify to enormous yet untapped potential for cooperation, its conformity with the world community’s interests on the path to progress and well-being of all nations. Particular emphasis here falls on the following: maintenance of peace and security, progressive advancement of good-neighborly relations and cooperation in the Central Asian and Caspian regions, assistance in peaceful, political settlement of the situation in Afghanistan and the country’s socio-economic recovery. Summing up the above-said, it is safe to say that the Ashgabat talks between President Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres have become a landmark event and have marked a key milestone in the Turkmenistan-UN relations, based on highly constructive and productive cooperation in the name of shared objectives – happiness, peace and nations’ well-being.