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Muratbek Imanaliev

lines on the record: 30
first: 1997-09-24
most recent: 1998-09-24
sittings or episodes: 2
sources: un-general-debate

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“Together with other countries, we have striven to establish a world of greater justice, to achieve social progress in the interest of humankind and to assert human dignity and equal rights for all. As the twenty-first century draws closer, what the world becomes will depend primarily on our joint efforts — the efforts of all United Nations Member States.”
1998-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 53 (1998)
“Terrorism long ago crossed national borders and became international in nature. Thousands of innocent people have become its victims, including children, women and elderly people. Particular phenomena of the past century have been terrorist bombings and nuclear terrorism. We support the proposals for accelerating work on a draft convention to combat acts of nuclear terrorism. Kyrgyzstan firmly opposes any form or type of terrorism and calls on the international community to pool its efforts against this global threat. Kyrgyzstan’s six years as a Member of the United Nations have been a good training ground for participation in the United Nations family.”
1998-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 53 (1998)
“We are also seriously alarmed at the military confrontation and the grave humanitarian situation in Kosovo, the situation in Africa and the absence of progress in the Middle East, Cyprus and the Korean peninsula. However, we are equally concerned about the financial crises in South-East Asia, Russia and Latin America and the nuclear- weapons tests conducted by India and Pakistan. For, as history shows, the sources of conflict, despite being very different, are at the same time very similar. Armed conflicts are accompanied by violence, mass exodus of refugees, illegal trafficking in drugs and weapons and flagrant disregard for and violations of human rights. The territory of countries experiencing armed conflicts is often utilized to train professional mercenaries and terrorists.”
1998-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 53 (1998)
“In this connection, we believe it useful to continue regular meetings between experts of the regional working group and those of the nuclear-weapon States, with the participation of representatives of the United Nations and the International Atomic Energy Agency. This year’s session coincides with the fiftieth anniversary of United Nations peacekeeping operations. Kyrgyzstan completely supports the peacekeeping efforts the Organization has undertaken in various global hot spots. At the same time, we believe that, along with peacekeeping operations, more attention should be paid to the early prevention of conflicts — so-called preventive or quiet diplomacy aimed at preventing disputes from turning into conflicts. Kyrgyzstan is seriously concerned by the armed conflict that has lasted for almost two decades in Afghanistan.”
1998-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 53 (1998)
“The specific steps Kyrgyzstan has taken in the area of nuclear disarmament and in strengthening the nuclear nonproliferation regime confirm its commitment to this policy. Appropriately, the Central Asian countries’ initiative to create a nuclear-weapon-free zone was on the agenda of the fifty-second session of the General Assembly. During that session a resolution on the establishment of such a zone in Central Asia was adopted by consensus. Today it is a pleasure for me to state that the consultative meeting of experts of Central Asian countries, nuclear-weapon States and the United Nations, which took place on 9 and 10 July in Bishkek, laid the legal foundation for the Central Asian initiative. This is a new stage in the creation of the zone.”
1998-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 53 (1998)
“Mountains, as is well known, are an important source of fresh water, biological diversity, mineral resources and energy, as well as being extremely important for tourism. At the same time, however, mountains means surprises and dangers. Earthquakes, landslides, avalanches, floods — all threaten human lives and require enormous financial and material expenditures. In that connection, Kyrgyzstan is deeply grateful to United Nations Member States for their support of its initiative to declare the year 2002 an international year of mountains, and we request them to continue to support the initiative at this session of the Assembly. The Kyrgyz Republic’s policy of peace, which is focused on the new trend towards a multipolar global system, presupposes, inter alia, a safe, non-nuclear future.”
1998-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 53 (1998)
“For countries with economies in transition — countries seeking to find their way to sustainable growth — it is especially important that there be coordination and joint action within a revitalized United Nations, the Bretton Woods institutions and regional organizations in order to accelerate the integration of these countries into the world economy. A priority for Kyrgyz development is solving the three-headed problem of modern times: how to promote the economy, ecology and social development. I should point out that ecology is the cornerstore of sustainable development for Kyrgyzstan. The harmony of man and nature is at the heart of the sustainable development programme adopted by the Government of Kyrgyzstan last year. Kyrgyzstan is a mountainous country; most of its territory — 95 per cent — is covered by mountains.”
1998-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 53 (1998)
“A revival of the idea of the great Silk Road presupposes the transformation of the area along the road into a zone of stability, security, cooperation and equitable partnership. The idea of reviving this road also represents a commitment to creating favourable conditions for increased international cooperation so that we can take joint action to solve the global problems that confront mankind at the threshold of the third millennium. The national strategy of the Kyrgyz Republic highlights sustainable development as the basis for stable and secure human development as we enter the new millennium. The implementation of the decisions adopted at the World Summit for Social Development are of 29 immense importance for the Kyrgyz Republic.”
1998-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 53 (1998)
“The main result has been the preservation of political stability, further democratization of the society and the extension of economic reforms. Lacking access to the sea, Kyrgyzstan is seeking new transport routes, which are essential for facilitating the movement of goods, capital and services into the region. It is acquiring new information technology and electronic communications, which will help the country modernize. Kyrgyzstan wishes to develop regional cooperation within the framework of the Central Asian economic community and the Commonwealth of Independent States. It also believes in the necessity of cooperation with other regions. In that connection, I would like to mention the timeliness and importance of President A. Akayev’s doctrine of “Silk Road Diplomacy”.”
1998-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 53 (1998)
“We share his view that the Council should deal with economic and social processes, which have an impact on peace and security, just as energetically as it works to resolve political issues. We also believe it essential not only to improve the working methods of the Council, but also to expand its membership. In our opinion, the quantitative expansion of the Council should take place in both categories of membership and provide for equitable geographic representation. Further, the new permanent members of the Council should have all the privileges appropriate to their status. The difficult reform process that all aspects of Kyrgyz society have been undergoing during the seven years of our independence has yielded certain results.”
1998-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 53 (1998)
“Kyrgyzstan wishes deeply to see the Organization successfully reformed. The SecretaryGeneral’s “quiet revolution” of institutional reforms, begun a year ago, has given new strength to the United Nations mechanism. The first, most important steps towards making this revolution a success have already been taken, but a great deal remains to be done. As the previous session showed, the process of reforming the Organization so that it is prepared to respond to the challenges of the coming millennium will require more time and more work than expected. The reforms of the United Nations will be incomplete if they do not apply to all of its organs, including the Security Council. We judge the Council by its effectiveness. In that connection, we support the Secretary-General’s proposal to expand the role of the Council.”
1998-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 53 (1998)
“Allow me to congratulate Mr. Didier Opertti on his election to the important post of President of the General Assembly at this session. This is a testimony to the widespread recognition of the country that he represents. I am convinced that his rich experience and diplomatic skill will allow him to successfully conduct this session of the Assembly and deal with the important tasks before it. I would also like to express my sincere thanks to the President of the General Assembly at its fifty-second session, the former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Mr. Udovenko, for his fruitful work over the past year. It would be difficult to underestimate the importance of the United Nations in the fields of peace and security, development, human rights, ecology and economic cooperation.”
1998-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 53 (1998)
“In conclusion, I should like to say that this is a decisive session for the United Nations. I should like to express the hope that the interests of individual countries and regions can be reconciled and that they will not prevail over responsibility for the fate of our common Organization. On this positive note, I should like to end my statement. 12”
1997-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 52 (1997)
“The conference approved the proposal. Kyrgyzstan is actively participating in peacekeeping activities. The Collective Peacekeeping Forces of CIS in Tajikistan includes one of our battalions. Kyrgyz military personnel in the Central Asian peacekeeping battalion took part in the joint exercises held within the framework of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) programme Partnership for Peace. Kyrgyzstan is also a member of the United Nations Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations. We are also interested in training an international peace force, military observers and civilian personnel so that they can participate in peacekeeping operations. I would like to take advantage of this opportunity to ask the United Nations and the donor countries to give us as much assistance as possible in this area.”
1997-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 52 (1997)
“With the entry into force of the Treaties of Pelindaba and Bangkok, more than 1.7 billion people will be living in zones free of nuclear weapons. Together with Antarctica, this territory will cover practically the entire southern hemisphere. It is essential that we do all we can to support and promote the establishment of nuclear- weapon-free zones. Here, above all, we are hoping for the understanding and support of nuclear-weapon States. At the international conference this September on the establishment of nuclear-weapon-free zones, held in Tashkent, Kyrgyzstan proposed the convening of an advisory meeting of the five Central Asian States, the five nuclear-weapon States that are permanent members of the Security Council, and representatives of the United Nations to discuss practical measures to make this idea a reality.”
1997-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 52 (1997)
“Pursuant to its peaceful policy, Kyrgyzstan has been actively promoting in the United Nations since 1995 the idea of establishing a nuclear-weapon-free zone in Central Asia, as reflected in a number of working papers of the 1995 Review and Extension Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the Preparatory Committee of the Conference of Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons to be held in the year 2000 and the Disarmament Commission. We are firmly convinced that the creation of nuclear-weapon-free zones, which is an important confidence-building measure and a positive backdrop to the disarmament process, is helping strengthen peace and security in the region and, in the final analysis, throughout the world.”
1997-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 52 (1997)
“In November 1996, President Akayev put forward an initiative to hold these negotiations in Bishkek. Subsequently, this proposal was repeated at meetings in New York of top officials and experts on Afghanistan. Building on this initiative, in August the President of Kyrgyzstan appealed to the parties to the conflict and Heads of State and Government concerned. Kyrgyzstan, which does not share a border with Afghanistan and has no interest aside from ensuring regional security, considers the organization of inter-Afghan negotiations under United Nations auspices an integral part of its peaceful policy of good-neighbourly relations and cooperation. Kyrgyzstan is ready to play the impartial role of mediator and make its good offices available to ensure a peaceful settlement of this problem.”
1997-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 52 (1997)
“The armed conflict in Afghanistan is of the greatest concern to the States of the Central Asian region; it fosters the illegal production and trafficking of drugs and is prompting the massive flow of refugees to neighbouring countries. The President and Government of Kyrgyzstan are firmly convinced that there can be only one solution to the Afghan conflict, namely, a political solution. The problem can be solved with the political will of the Afghan parties above all and assistance from neighbouring States that have an influence in the region. We have not abandoned hope regarding the organization of direct inter-Afghan negotiations under the auspices of the United Nations to discuss conditions for a ceasefire and subsequent measures to bring about national reconciliation.”
1997-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 52 (1997)
“As a representative of one of the States that is a guarantor of peace in Tajikistan, I am gratified to note my 11 country’s involvement in this event. The mediation efforts of Kyrgyzstan, and of President Akayev himself, helped bring about the important agreement in May this year that laid the way for the General Agreement, namely, the signing of the Protocol on Political Questions. However, as the events in August demonstrated, peace in Tajikistan is still extremely fragile and its survival depends, first and foremost, on the Tajik parties themselves and how faithful they are to the commitments they have made. We are convinced that our Tajik friends will be able to see this through. The prospects for peace-building in Tajikistan depend to a significant extent on the situation along the Tajik- Afghan border.”
1997-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 52 (1997)
“Supporting peace and security is the highest priority task of the United Nations. We place great store by the United Nations peacekeeping activities and pay due tribute to the courage and selflessness of United Nations personnel working in regions of conflict. The efforts of the United Nations Mission of Observers in Tajikistan, headed by the Special Representative of the Secretary- General, Mr. Gerd Merrem, and the Collective Peacekeeping Forces of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), culminated successfully in Moscow on 27 June 1997 with the signing of the General Agreement on the Establishment of Peace and National Accord in Tajikistan, which opened the way for the country’s transition from war to reconstruction and rehabilitation.”
1997-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 52 (1997)
“The poorest countries are not in a position to take off economically or socially and are continuing to lose the ties that enable them to participate in the world economy. We can assume that if this trend continues, their numbers will continue to grow, and this represents a serious threat to all human development. We need to halt that trend. In this context, in the view of the experts, the most promising approaches are to increase investments in human resources to encourage the implementation of ecologically clean and effective technologies and to reform price structures. In our view, it is precisely in these areas that United Nations activities, in new conditions, should be stepped up in order to promote economic and social progress. We support the efforts of the Secretary-General to promote stable and sustainable development.”
1997-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 52 (1997)
“I would like to take this opportunity to appeal to Governments and, above all, to the other sponsors to submit the relevant information for incorporation into a complete and comprehensive report on this question by the Secretary-General. I hope the General Assembly will in turn adopt a consensus decision on this initiative. At the same time, we believe that it is possible, with support from Governments, to raise the question of drawing up a global programme of action to ensure the sustainable development of countries with mountainous regions, similar to the programme being carried out for small island developing countries. There can be no doubt that the economic gap between the rich developed countries and the developing world has widened over recent years.”
1997-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 52 (1997)
“At the regular session of the Economic and Social Council in July this year, in Geneva, a resolution proclaiming International Year of Mountains, sponsored by 44 countries, was adopted by consensus. The resolution contains a request to the Secretary-General to present to the regular session of the Economic and Social Council in 1998, after consultations with Governments and with the relevant international, regional and non-governmental organizations, a report on the desirability of proclaiming the International Year of Mountains and other measures to ensure the sustainable development of mountainous countries.”
1997-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 52 (1997)
“The Declaration adopted by the conference in Rio ranks mountainous ecological systems among those particularly vulnerable to natural and man-made impacts. It is universally recognized that peoples living in mountainous regions bear far heavier social and economic burdens than those who live in plains. In the light of these factors and circumstances and also on the basis of the decisions of the Global Environment Facility, our country held an international conference on problems of mountain ecosystems. The participants in the conference put forward a proposal to proclaim an international year of the mountains, a proposal which was actively supported by President Akayev in his message to the delegates to the mountain forum and in his letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations.”
1997-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 52 (1997)
“Our country was the first of the newly independent States to draw up and adopt a national plan of action for environmental protection. In the light of the implementation of the decisions of the Rio Conference, Kyrgyzstan is now carrying out a country project, Capacity 21, which consists of three major components: coordination of and carrying out ecological studies, stable management of water resources and economic growth and social development. Through an edict of President Akayev, a national strategy has been adopted for sustainable human development which recognizes man, and his harmonious existence with nature, as the highest priority. Kyrgyzstan was the first country in the region to draw up a “concept for ecological security”.”
1997-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 52 (1997)
“The period after the achievement of independence was decisive for Kyrgyzstan, in the context of the formation of national statehood and of new social and economic ties. The country is actively seeking ways and means to harmoniously integrate itself into the international community. Clear successes have already been achieved on this thorny path in strengthening 10 democratic institutions, radical reform of the economy of the country, improving the means for achieving inter-ethnic agreement, enhancing tolerance and ensuring human rights. The leadership of the country is also concentrating on those domestic and international issues which must be developed on a permanent and positive basis for the well- being of the population of Kyrgyzstan.”
1997-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 52 (1997)
“The collapse of a bipolar world has provided us an opportunity to focus efforts on resolving the issues of poverty, health care, education, economic development and democracy. We are all, however, still facing the threat of local and regional conflicts, international terrorism, organized crime, illegal trafficking in drugs and weapons, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and the deterioration of the state of the environment. All these negative aspects of human activity threaten the global trend towards strengthening peace and progress, undermine the fragile new democracies, wear down the strength of the developing countries and generally threaten all our efforts focused on building a safer and better world.”
1997-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 52 (1997)
“We are ready to support all proposals that promote that goal. Regarding the reform of the Security Council, the issue of improving its methods of work is no less important than the question of enlarging its membership. Kyrgyzstan believes that these questions must be considered together. We continue to support the proposal for permanent membership in the Council for Japan and Germany. However, in our view, the permanent members of the Security Council should also include one representative each from Africa, Asia and Latin America. Mankind is now on the eve of a new millennium, and the changes taking place are altering the image of mankind and shifting the emphasis in the models for understanding and explaining our world.”
1997-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 52 (1997)
“Like the entire international community, Kyrgyzstan expects genuine progress regarding the complex issue of the reform of the United Nations to come out of the present session. We are confident that the session will be able to cope with the problems facing the Organization today during this difficult and complicated period. The President and the Government of my country fully support the efforts of the Secretary-General, Mr. Kofi Annan, to enhance the efficiency of the United Nations, and his ability to respond sensitively and adequately to the challenges of a rapidly changing world. We are confident that a renewed United Nations will truly embody the principles and purposes proclaimed in its Charter, ensuring the harmony of the interests of all its Members in the name of peace and progress.”
1997-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 52 (1997)
“Allow me, on behalf of the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic and its people, to congratulate my colleague the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Mr. Udovenko, on his election to the high office of President of the fifty-second session of the General Assembly, and to wish him success in his endeavours. May I also express our feelings of respect for his country, which is playing an important role in resolving regional and global issues. I would also like to express our heartfelt gratitude to the previous President of the General Assembly, the representative of the friendly Malaysian people, Ambassador Razali Ismail, for his active and dynamic efforts in establishing constructive dialogue on ways to reform the United Nations.”
1997-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 52 (1997)