OREANDA-NEWS. November 12, 2009. The annual interregional seminar on strengthening in international legal cooperation, organized by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) with the active assistance of the Government of Turkmenistan was closed at the President Hotel in the Turkmen capital.

The agenda of the three-day forum focused on the aspects of partnership to address such an urgent problem of the modern world as human trafficking. In this regard, the participants including the officers of the prosecutors’ offices, judicial and law enforcement agencies from the Central Asian countries, Azerbaijan, Russia, Thailand, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and the international experts were unanimous that there was the need to further expand international legal cooperation in this field.

In this context particular attention was paid to the position of Turkmenistan that stood steadfast to its international commitments and called for consistently strengthening and expanding the constructive dialogue with the UN in particular to effectively combat all forms of organized crime and ensure global peace, security and sustainable development.

Summing up the forum the participants focused on the importance of the Ashgabat meeting for further promotion of fruitful legal cooperation and called for intensifying cooperation aimed at protecting the interests of the people and ensuring universally recognized human rights and freedoms.