Turkmenistan attaches a highly humanistic meaning to the concept of international sports cooperation and directly connects it with the Sustainable Development Goals 2030 adopted by the UN. On September 15, 2017, on the initiative of Turkmenistan, at the 36th session of the UN Human Rights Council, the Declaration “On encouraging the valuable contribution of Olympic refugee teams to strengthening peace and human rights” was adopted. At the initiative of our country, the UN General Assembly proclaimed June 3 as World Bicycle Day.

Turkmenistan has laid strong foundations for international sports cooperation. In this regard, cooperation in the field of sports with more than 60 countries of the world is regulated on a bilateral legal basis. In addition, issues of sports cooperation find a worthy place in the declarations and statements of heads of state adopted following visits at the highest level, as well as in the final documents of intergovernmental commissions on the development of bilateral cooperation with foreign countries.

Turkmenistan is recognized as one of the centers of international sports cooperation. As part of this, interaction with the International Olympic Committee, the UN Bureau of Sport for Development and Peace, the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee on Physical Culture and Sports, and the Olympic Council of Asia is expanding. Our country regularly makes concrete proposals aimed at developing mutually beneficial cooperation in this area and supporting the Olympic movement as an important factor in strengthening global peace, friendship, and good neighborliness.

Zibagozel HALLYEVA,
student of the Institute of International Relations
of the MFA of Turkmenistan.