By Trend
The meeting with representatives of the Regional Representation
of United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees
(UNHCR) for Central Asia has taken place at the State Migration
Service of Turkmenistan, the local migration agency said in a
statement.
The parties expressed their confidence in expansion of fruitful
partnership between Turkmenistan and UNHCR.
The UN representatives noted the work for reduction of number of
persons without citizenship completed by Turkmenistan.
Turkmenistan adheres to the agreed standards of international
law and as a neutral state, puts forward peaceful and humanistic
initiatives, supporting the international principles of development
of friendly and good-neighborly relations, the message says.
Some 735 persons have received citizenship of Turkmenistan this
year. Some 8,145 persons were admitted to citizenship of
Turkmenistan from 2011 to 2017.
Turkmenistan has acceded to major international legal documents
of the UNO including the convention “About status of refugees” and
the protocol attached to it, the UN conventions “About status of
stateless persons”, “About reduction of number of persons without
citizenship”.
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