National Leader Honoured with Jubilee Neutrality Medal

The National Leader of the Turkmen people and Chairman of the Halk Maslahaty of Turkmenistan, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, has been awarded a jubilee medal marking the 30th anniversary of Turkmenistan’s permanent neutrality, along with a set of commemorative insignia. The corresponding decree was signed by the President of Turkmenistan, Serdar Berdimuhamedov, the Watan television programme reported.

The award recognises National Leader's substantial personal contribution to strengthening the country’s neutral status, implementing wide-ranging reforms, enhancing Turkmenistan’s international standing, and advancing a policy of peace, trust and sustainable development.

A solemn award ceremony honouring foreign nationals and respected elders of Turkmenistan also was held in Ashgabat to celebrate a landmark anniversary. The event served as a vivid demonstration of the international recognition of the country’s neutral course, the legal status of which has been affirmed on three occasions by resolutions of the United Nations General Assembly.

The Jubilee Medal “30th Anniversary of Turkmenistan’s Neutrality” and a commemorative badge were awarded to:

Vladimir Ivanovich Goryaev – Member of the Board of Directors of the Register of Damage Caused by the Construction of the Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, operating within the system of the United Nations General Assembly;

Narine Sahakyan – Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Turkmenistan;

Kakha Imnadze – Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia;

Dmytro Shlapachenko – United Nations Resident Coordinator in Turkmenistan;

Kim Jin-pyo – Chairman of the Institute for Global Innovation Studies of the Republic of Korea;

Toshiaki Endo – Member of the House of Representatives of the Parliament of Japan and Chairman of the Turkmen–Japanese Inter-Parliamentary Friendship Group on the Japanese side;

Ahmet Çalık – Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Çalık Holding Group (Republic of Türkiye);

Martin Bouygues – Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bouygues Group (French Republic);

Johann Engelbert Meissner – citizen of the Federal Republic of Germany, cardiac surgeon;

Volkmar Jansson – Head of the Department of Orthopaedics, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (Grosshadern Campus), Ludwig Maximilian University Hospital (Federal Republic of Germany);

Klaus Georg Parhofer – Deputy Director of the 4th Medical Clinic and Polyclinic (Grosshadern Campus), Ludwig Maximilian University Hospital (Federal Republic of Germany);

Fritz Wilhelm Wolfgang Spelsberg – Chief Physician of the Clinic of General and Visceral Surgery at the Research Hospital in Fürstenfeldbruck, Ludwig Maximilian University Hospital (Federal Republic of Germany);

Lisl Doris Heussermann-Mangold – Physician at the Clinic of Aesthetic Dermatology and Prevention of Malignant Skin Neoplasms (Federal Republic of Germany).

Source: www.tdh.gov.tm