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Based on its status of neutrality, Turkmenistan consistently expands mutually beneficial cooperation with countries around the world and major international organisations,
Turkmenistan gained its independence in 1991 during the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Primarily a desert country, it has a population of around six million people.
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Turkmenistan, second largest country of Central Asia. Though long home to the Turkmens, a nomadic Turkic people, the area did not become a political unit in its own right
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