Turkmenistan has come forward with its next important and strategic initiative aimed at ensuring peace and security in the region and around the world. Within the framework of his working visit to the USA, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, Rashid Meredov, met with the Head of the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism, Aleksandr Zuev, and presented in detail the proposal to open a Programme Office of the organization in the city of Ashgabat. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan.

This international initiative is a clear proof of the active policy pursued by Turkmenistan in strengthening global and regional security, and in increasing the effectiveness of the collective fight against threats. This new office proposed by our country will turn into the most sustainable expert, analytical, and coordination platform for countering terrorism for the entire Central Asian region in the future.

During the talks, the UN representatives highly praised Turkmenistan's peace-loving foreign policy course, its preventive diplomacy, and its concrete proposals. Within the framework of the historical resolution recently adopted by the UN General Assembly on the initiative of Turkmenistan, our state has once again demonstrated its leading role to the whole world in creating concrete mechanisms for regional security.