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UNDP Shares Achievements with UN Secretary-General During His Turkmenistan-leg of Central Asian Tour

UNDP Resident Representative Lenni Montiel highlights governance, human rights, climate change and disaster risk reduction in the focus of UNDP’s work in Turkmenistan

Ashgabat, 27 April 2010 – In the course of his two-day visit to Turkmenistan, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his delegation met with the UN Country Team. During the meeting, the UN SG was updated on the milestones of the UN cooperation with Turkmenistan and progress achieved since the opening of UNDP office Turkmenistan in 1993 as the first UN agency in the country. During the meeting, all UN agencies were able to present achievements of their work in Turkmenistan.

Along with heads of other UN Agencies in Turkmenistan, the UN Resident Coordinator/UNDP Resident Representative, Lenni Montiel, and UNDP Deputy Resident Representative Narine Sahakyan had the opportunity to brief the UN Secretary-General on UNDP’s major achievements and focus of work in Turkmenistan... more

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UNDP Country Programme focuses on three areas – Democratic Governance, Environment and Sustainable Development, and Poverty Reduction and MDG Achievement under the UNDP Strategic Plan for 2008-2011 Gender and human rights related initiatives are also included in the country programme and mainstreamed across all other programme components.


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