The meeting that brought together international experts of the WHO Regional Office for Europe and representatives of the UNICEF focused on the work done within the period and the further prospects of cooperation. The meeting agenda also included the project of the new nutrition programme for 2018-2025.

The meeting participants underlined the importance of the Public Health and Nutrition Centre – a modern innovative institution conducting scientific research on the influence of social and biological factors on health and developing environmentally friendly food technologies and healthy nutrition standards, which was initiated by the President of Turkmenistan and opened in summer, 2016.

Speaking during the meeting, the representatives of a number of ministries and departments of Turkmenistan noted that the measures taken place in our country with the aim to improve health, prevent diseases, increase in life expectancy and popularize sports delivered positive results.

Foreign specialists familiarized the meeting participants with the advanced nutrition practices and obeseness prevention, the latest methods of laboratory analysis to assess the quality of food products. International experts highly evaluated the results of work carried out in our country within the Healthy Nutrition Programme of Turkmenistan for 2013-2017.