

Turkmenistan's Permanent Representative to the UN – about women in diplomacy, compromises and empathy
Since 1995, the number of women permanent representatives to the UN has grown from 7 to 38. "There is still slow progress," said Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Aksoltan Atayeva, who has represented Turkmenistan at the UN for 28 years and is the doyen of the diplomatic corps in New York. UN News Service published an interview with Aksoltan Torayevna on the occasion of the International Day of Women in Diplomacy, which is celebrated on June 24.


















