To prevent and control noncommunicable diseases, to increase life expectancy, to promote healthy lifestyle; guided by the measures and proposals outlined in the Ashgabat Declaration on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases in the context of the WHO Health–2020 policy, the President of Turkmenistan signed a Resolution approving the membership of the National Board for Coordination of Implementation of the 2014-2020 National Strategy on Fulfilling Tasks outlined in the said Ashgabat Declaration.