Honourable Chairman, Distinguished Delegates, I greet you all. According to the 1989 census, 65.1 percent of the population age 15 or older had completed secondary school compared with 45.6 percent in 1979.
The Turkmenistan government has made an educational policy up to 2020 and would be realized based upon the priority of its development. In Turkmenistan, particularly all children (99.9%) who entered grade 1 completed grade 5.
The ratio of boys to girls attending primary and secondary school is more known as the gender parity ratio. In Turkmenistan, the gender parity ratio both for primary and secondary education is 1.0, which is an evidence of the equality and absence of gender disparities in male and female school attendance.
The right to education is secured in article 35 of the constitution of Turkmenistan. The MDG “Ensure equality between men and women and enable women”-“Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005 and at all levels of education by 2015 has been achieved for the 1-2 stages of education in Turkmenistan”. Any form of discrimination against women related to education, gender equality, free choice of occupation and equal conditions for entering educational institutions do not exist in the country.