our confidence in our people, our fatherland and justice, and the unity and cooperation of the 24 tribes of our ancestor Oguz. By uniting sovereignty and nationhood we became independent in our fatherland. We took our flag and marks of the state from the essential meaning derived from our profound roots.

There exist many traces of our history in countries such as Saudi Arabia, Caucasus, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, China, Russia, India and Pakistan. In this region, there have been periods in which Türkmens established direct relations with everybody. However, this was not possible in recent times. Now after re-inspecting all our historical relations we have succeeded in establishing good relations with all of them. When I declared our status of permanent neutrality to the whole world on the occasion of the celebration of the 50^th Anniversary of the United Nations, I mentioned our legacy to the civilizations which have developed in that terrain which was occupied by the Oguzs, Türkmens and Seljuks. Today, our conciliatory nature constitutes a good example. Our peace-loving and conciliatory character is not peculiar only to today, however, and those countries, which had many relations with us in the past know this best. Therefore, our neighbors and other states in our region were first to support our status of neutrality. Later, all states showed their support for this policy.

Constant Neutrality was the second foundation we achieved on independence. It was Oguz Han’s wish and prayer uttered five thousand years ago that our land may be at peace forever. Our ancestors’ belief was always that our blue sky should be dominated by peace and tranquility. We became confident that we could survive on earth by adopting and enacting this faith of our ancestors as the fundamental