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PRESS RELEASES |
1 December 2011 – Heading into the fourth decade of AIDS, we are finally in a position to end the epidemic.
Ashgabat, 29 November 2011 – The decision of the UN Country Team to expand UN visibility in the country has been translated into an initiative to deliver lectures to the students of the Foreign Relations Institute of the Foreign Ministry of Turkmenistan. Ashgabat, 26 November 2011 – The UNDP Country Office in Turkmenistan and the Israeli Agency for International Development Cooperation (MASHAV) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on cooperation in areas of mutual interest to enhance the effectiveness of their development efforts in Turkmenistan. Ashgabat, 24 November 2011 – Sulgun is passionate about children's rights issues and has posted a number of articles in local newspapers describing the role of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Ashgabat, 23 November 2011 – The Inter-ministerial group members responsible for the implementation and coordination of the Turkmenistan National Programme on Early Childhood Development (ECD) completed a week long workshop where they discussed the latest trends in the area of early childhood development as well as an implementation phase of the Programme. Ashgabat, 23 November 2011 – Students of the Institute of International Relations of Turkmenistan learned about UNDP’s mission, scope of activities and UNDP’s role in the area of human development in a lecture delivered by Deputy Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Turkmenistan Narine Sahakyan. Ashgabat, 11 November 2011 – On November 4, 2011, as a result of effective cooperation and coordination between UN and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, the Mission of International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Turkmenistan provided a 2-hour lecture on "IOM Programmes and Combating Trafficking in Human Beings in Central Asia" for students and teaching staff of the Institute of Foreign Relations of Turkmenistan. The lecture was attended by more than 60 students. |
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UNODC introduces FRI students to operational mandate of the organisation |
UNODC introduces FRI students to operational mandate of the organisation Ashgabat, 1 November 2011 – Mr. Ercan SAKA, head of the UNODC Program Office in Turkmenistan delivered a two-hour lecture at the Foreign Relations Institute as a UN outreach activity on the occasion of the UN Day 2011.
The audience represented by the senior students and teaching staff (around 60 people) was very interested in the topic and actively participated by responding to questions asked by Ercan in the course of the lecture.
The lecture was a real success.
The first part of the lecture included the brief information over the UN, ECOSOC, Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND), UN Drug and Crime related conventions, the UNODC mandates and its activities in Central Asia. The CND was elaborated in details due to the Turkmenistan’s membership to this entity for the period of 2012-2015.
During the second part of the lecture, the audience was informed over the criminal proceedings, money laundering and illicit drug trafficking situation in Central Asia region. Finally, the lecture ended with the counter-narcotic measures taken by the Government of Turkmenistan and current and potential partnership with the UNODC.
The teaching staff and students of the Institute also received the UN in Turkmenistan brochure printed for this year UN Day celebrations and UN SG address on the occasion of UN Day.
In the end of the lecture, the appreciation for this UN initiative came from both Professor Amangeldi Rakhmanov, who, by the way, was Turkmenistan's Permanent Representative to the UN and Ambassador to China, and the students of the Institute who spoke perfect English. They hoped that such activity will be continued in the future.
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