Mehmood Ul Hassan Khan
Presidential Election 2017 will be held on February 12, 2017 in Turkmenistan. Political campaigning has been allowed and all the candidates are busy to get more and more support from the general masses to win upcoming Presidential Election 2017. The Turkmenistan’s Central Commission for Elections and Referendums is in process of finalizing different facilities to arrange the upcoming Presidential Election 2017 through achieving highest levels of transparency.
Vibrant Democracy
Turkmenistan’s democracy is vibrant where people elect their representatives through free will and fair voting patterns. Its political system is based on mutual respect, cooperation and coordination due to which there is not a single incident of political chaos, anarchy or constitutional deadlock in the country since its inception.
Equal Right & No Discrimination
They all share good spirits and do not follow their vested interests for winning elections. It is always arranged and contested at the international standards of fair, free and transparency. Every candidate for any election including Presidential has equal rights of access to information, association, publication and political campaigning in the country. Moreover, political stability is achieved through continuation of political system through regular elections at every level and furthermore, within the provision of the constitution.
Gurbanguly Myalikgulyevich Berdimuhamedov“Policy Statement”
Incumbent President Gurbanguly Myalikgulyevich Berdimuhamedov also delivered his “Policy Statement” for the Presidential Election 2017 which is the combination of his diversified but integrated policies, programs, reforms and implementations mechanism to achieve certain goals of a qualitative life, political stability, rampant socio-economic development and the last but not the least, sustainability in all sphere of the state during 2017 and beyond.
Primary Objectives
He sets different primary objectives to ensure the prosperity of independent neutral Turkmenistan in the third millennium by making every effort and carrying out great deeds for the sake of a happy and prosperous life of the native people and for sake of interests of the country.
Further Consolidation of the Different Stratums of the Society
He promises to achieve further consolidation of the different stratums of the society and implementation of more democratic values inherited from ancestors through consultation with the people and the wise elders. He plans to build a “Developed Country”. He believes that all the achievements for the benefit of the people and country in the happy state will be successful. He wishes to transform the beautiful Motherland to stable, happy and prosperous country by constructing white marble villages and towns in the beloved homeland.
Incumbent President also sets out different tasks which are given below as:-
i. Significant Increase in Economic Potential: More strengthen the fundamentals of the eternal and inviolable Turkmen state; significantly increase its economic potential. Improve social and living conditions of happy citizens and will raise spiritual perfection of the nation to higher levels.
ii. Greater Industrialization & Comprehensive Development: Achieving high productivity in industry, agriculture and business, introduce into practice the economic mechanisms of further increasing output of Turkmen goods, competitive on international markets, and will bring per capita income to the level of advanced countries.
i. Institutionalization of Science and Technology: Creation of conditions that will open up opportunities for the development of science and education, cultural and humanitarian spheres, and, relying on the rich national spiritual and cultural heritage, will ensure that Turkmen people would be fame in the world as a nation-builder, people-creator.
ii. Rise to Social Protection & Qualitative Health Facilities: Strengthen the social security of people. Consistently improve legislation in accordance with modern requirements. The frames of State program “Health” will provide medical services to citizens at the level of developed countries. Continue work on the construction of health centers, hospitals and therapeutic centers.
iii. Rampant Urban Development & Optimal Utility of Water Resources: Successfully and consistently implement the National Program for the development of villages. Improve the reclamation of cultivated areas. Ensure sustainable use of water resources of the country and will build hydro-irrigation facilities designed for efficient water use. Take all necessary measures for full water supply of acreage. Introduce the most advanced technologies in the water economy of the country.
iv. Ecological Balance: Create settlements with all the amenities for living and along these water reservoirs with a peculiar nature and plant life, create ample acreage of halophytes plants that provide delicious fruit, growing at salty water.
v. High Industrial Productive: Focus at the developing industrial sectors, creating electronic industry and transforming our country into the industrialized nation.
vi. Balanced Rural & Urban Development: Create good social conditions for citizens living in the cities and districts, and will take all measures to ensure that all streets paved and lit, in order to provide conditions the similar to urban.
vii. Better Rural Transportation Facilities: Reconstruct intercity and rural roads and bridges, and will organize the work of passenger buses.
viii. Better Public Services: Opening of the small centers of public services in all communities, will facilitate opening there modern saunas, playgrounds for children and youth, health centers, cinema and concert halls, workshops of folk crafts, as well as centers for maintenance of vehicles.
ix. Sustained Per capita Growth: Provide consistent population income growth
x. Upward Increase in Wages, Pensions & Scholarship: Keep the focus on issues of increasing wages, pensions, scholarships and state benefits and provision of social benefits for citizens.
xi. Greater Generation of Jobs: Take all measures to ensure the employment of citizens, especially youth, to provide them modern education.
xii. Construction of Better Housing Units: Continue the construction of housing with all amenities, education, sports, health and resort centers, facilities for social and cultural purposes.
xiii. Greater Financial Support: Continue to provide financial support to families, and by ensuring the allocation of the necessary funds for the solution of social tasks of each family, will support successful solution of issues of family, being the primary unit of society, as well as issues of maternity and child health.
xiv. Developed Tourism: Outline the development of tourism in accordance with international standards. Fundamental transformations of recreational and resort system will be one of the important areas of activity.
xv. Greater Politicization & Democratization: Ensure further improvement of the political system of our society and strengthening of local executive authorities, and higher democratizing public life.
xvi. Business & People Friendly Policies: Create favorable conditions for business development in industry and agriculture.
xvii. Price Stability: Stably provide the market with food products at cheap and affordable prices, will implement the necessary measures to increase the number of sheep, cattle and poultry, agricultural production in large volumes.
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xviii. Greater Role of local governments: Improve the efficiency of local elected representative bodies provincial, district and town people’s councils, and will raise the role of local governments Gengeshi in the social and political system.
xix. Growth of Political Parties: Continue to create the necessary conditions for improving the work of the newly formed parties.
xx. Close Liaison with International Organizations: Close cooperation with international organizations will continue the struggle against international terrorism, extremism, transnational organized crime, drug trafficking, bribery.
xxi. Strong National Army & Martial Modernization: Strengthen the power of the national army, naval forces, border units, vigilantly guarding the borders of the homeland, and will improve the work of law enforcement agencies, as well as will ensure the consistent equipping of our armed forces with modern weapons and improving social and living conditions of military personnel.
xxii. Better HRMs & Rise to Technical Education: Pay special attention to the formation of a new generation of workers and professionals, who are able for skillful use all the latest communication and multimedia technologies.
xxiii. Optimal Utility of Natural Resources & Reservoirs: Put the country’s natural resources for servicing prosperous life of citizens, will modernize petroleum refining capacities, including the deep processing of hydrocarbon resources on the basis of the advanced technology, production of high demand high-quality products as gasoline polypropylene, liquefied gas
xxiv. Successful Sports Events: Make every effort that the V Asian Indoor Games and Martial Arts to be held in Ashgabat, would demonstrate Turkmenistan’s high prestige in the international sporting world.
xxv. Massive Growth of ICT, & Media: Continue to improve communications and broadcasting sector, and will launch new space satellites that will perform activity for our national economy.
xxvi. Development of National tourist zone: Further developing National tourist zone “Avaza” at Caspian coast, will turn it into one of the world’s most famous recreation and health centers.
xxvii. Rise to Renewables: Effective use of alternative energy sources solar and wind, will render greater support to the promotion of this sector.
xxviii. Rise to Space Technology: Availability of climate and natural opportunities for the study of space, will create the perfect Observatory, which would be equipped with telescopes of various sizes for observations by Turkmen and foreign specialists. It will have all necessary living quarters and offices.
xxix. Friendly Traveling: Work on broad footing to create resorts for those who like family tours and boat travelling, envisaging green areas at 40-50-km distant from each other
xxx. Gorges of the Kopetdag, Koytendag and Sumbar, in protected areas of Badhyz, on the banks of the Amu Darya, Murgab Rivers and Karakum-river, a number of recreation centers, to be built by efforts of Turkmen builders, would present all conditions for the visits of Turkmen and foreign travelers.
xxxi. Network of Resorts: Along the roads, leading to the provincial centers, every 40-50 kilometers will start construction of resorts, which would be located in the dense forest belt with teahouses and landscaped grounds, campgrounds small hotels, as well as modern maintenance centers.
xxxii. Consolidation of Achievements: Combining of current achievements and rich traditions, inherited from the glorious states, founded by Oguz, will reach the great spiritual revival and will confidently move forward and only forward to new heights of progress.
Highest Political Maturity
Incumbent President Gurbanguly Myalikgulyevich Berdimuhamedov has transferred his allotted airtime to other presidential candidates which show complete objectivity and transparency in the upcoming Presidential Election 2017.
Message to Compatriots of Presidential Election 2017
He also conveyed his good wishes to all the compatriots of Presidential Election 2017 which shows his highest levels of political maturity and respect. He prayed prosperity, abundance, and good health for each candidate and his family. He also outlined rampant socio-economic development in 2016.
Completion of Mega Projects
The President pinpointed completion of so many mega projects (Oguz Han Engineering Technology University, the International Airport, Paýtagt control centre of the Asgabatenergob Production Association, a number of medical centres as well as a furniture complex in the Ak Bugday Etrap in Ahal velayat, Aba Annayev village in the Kyarizek Gengeshlik in the Geoktepe Etrap, Children’s health-improving centre in the city of Serdar in the Balkan Velayat) which ensured the growth of the national economy and improved the people’s wellbeing. He also mentioned completion of a number of modern villages and settlements in the Lebap and Mary Velayats and a cottage complex, yacht club and a five-star hotel during 2016 along with strategic Atamyrat-Ymamnazar-Akina section of the Asian international railway transport corridor.
Rampant Agricultural Development
The President highlighted agricultural development in the country which was achieved by the hard-working of agricultural specialists reaped rich harvest of wheat and cotton. Over 1.600 million tons of wheat and more than 1.100 million tons of ‘white gold’ were delivered to the receiving points in the country, he added.
Rise to of private entrepreneurs & Competitive Export-Oriented Goods
Incumbent President also mentioned development of private entrepreneurs, the production of import-substituting and competitive export-oriented goods in 2016 which played crucial role in the national economy and developing the small- and medium-sized business. He also showcased his ambitious health care policies/programs and building of so many hospitals and medical centres throughout the country. He projected development in education, science and introduction of modern technologies and innovative systems for further strengthening of socio-economic development in the country.
Achievements of Culture & Sports
Incumbent President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov projected the achievements in fields of culture and sports and the success achieved by Turkmen athletes’ at international competitions vividly testified to the efficiency of his efforts. Ashgabat will host the V Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games in 2017.
Achievements at International Levels
President Gurbanguly Myalikgulyevich Berdimuhamedov mentioned his country achievements at the international levels. Turkmenistan for the fifth time, country has been elected to vice-chair at the session of the UN General Assembly. The election of Turkmenistan into a number of the UN specialized institutions and commissions, and recently the Chair of the Energy Charter, is an honour for the people and state. It verified and increased Turkmenistan’s international authority of and its neutral state and the efficiency of the policy pursued in the country. As a reliable partner, we will develop fruitful relations with the United Nations Organisation, he added.
Good Wishes for 2017
He believes that the year of 2017, which we welcome with kind wishes and hopes, will be the year of progress, inspiration and remarkable achievements. While implementing programmes and great initiatives aimed at ensuring the interests of the country and people in the New Year, I rely on the selfless labour of our compatriots. He hoped that during the 2017 Elders Council in the Ahal Velayat, will confer with the wise elders regarding the further development of the country, provision of happy, prosperous life for our citizens and will define the tasks for the future.
Concluded
