UN General Assembly
2013

and resolute policy of peace, good-neighbourliness and the active promotion of peacebuilding processes. As a matter of principle, we reject the use of military force as a tool of foreign policy and international relations. Our country is convinced that solutions based on the use of force are doomed to fail. They neither eliminate the causes of conflicts nor create conditions for adequate responses to the many issues that arise from military action. Therefore, at the heart of Turkmenistan’s policies is the will to resolve any situation by peaceful, political and diplomatic ways and means, which it considers to be the main legitimate resources available within the United Nations. This approach is based on our common goal to establish a world without conflict. At the sixty-sixth session of the General Assembly, Turkmenistan’s President launched an initiative aimed at the adoption of a United Nations declaration on prioritizing political and diplomatic ways and means for the resolution of international challenges. Today, the elaboration of such a document has become a top priority. Turkmenistan therefore reaffirms its firm