Executive Director of the UN Population Fund Natalia Kanem has sent letter addressed to President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov. In her message, the Head of the United Nations structure expressed her regret that she had to postpone her visit to Turkmenistan in the beginning of the year due to COVID-19 pandemic as well as said that she hopes to come to the country in the nearest future.
The Head of the UNFPA expressed interest in Turkmenistan in the light of the last results in the sphere of reduction of preventable maternal mortality and morbidity, which are the lowest in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia.