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Qohir Rasulzoda

lines on the record: 30
first: 2014-09-24
most recent: 2019-09-24
sittings or episodes: 2
sources: un-general-debate

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“Of those, the most urgent are the threats of global terrorism, climate change, environmental degradation, acute shortages of resources and the growing gap between poor and rich countries and population groups. The United Nations remains the only universal organization capable of coordinating and uniting the efforts of the entire international community to resolve these problems currently facing humankind.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“In that connection, the Republic of Tajikistan, as part of the Dushanbe process, will hold the second conference on the implementation of the International Decade of Action, entitled “Galvanizing water-related actions and partnerships at the local, national, regional and global levels”, in Dushanbe in June 2020. We sincerely hope that Member States will once again support us and take an active part in our upcoming conference in Dushanbe. We believe firmly that developing water cooperation and partnerships will help to ensure the timely adoption of measures needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. In conclusion, I would like to note that today, against a background of emerging problems on a global scale, we must make tremendous efforts to achieve the goals we have set in a timely way.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“In 2018, we began implementing our fourth global initiative, the International Decade for Action “Water for Sustainable Development” 2018-2028. Resolution 71/222, on this issue, outlines the modalities of the midterm comprehensive review of the Decade’s implementation and envisages two important global events. For the first time since the first United Nations Water Conference was held in Mar del Plata, Argentina, more than 40 years ago, a United Nations conference on the midterm comprehensive review of the implementation of the objectives of the International Decade for Action “Water for Sustainable Development” will be held in New York in March 2023. In 2021, there will be a one-day high-level meeting of the General Assembly to promote the implementation of the water-related goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“The Government has been taking comprehensive measures to balance energy production and consumption by modernizing and upgrading our existing hydropower stations, building new ones and introducing modern energy-conservation methods. Tajikistan is a leader in promoting water issues at the global level. It is well known that in the past few decades, at the initiative of President Rahmon four important global initiatives were endorsed by the General Assembly. In the course of their promotion and implementation, the initiatives received broad support from Member States, international and regional organizations, financial institutions, prominent members of the science and business communities and representatives of civil society.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“It is also essential to enhance the monitoring of glaciers, snow and other water sources and take effective steps to protect them for future generations. We consider it vital to promote development of a green economy in every way, and particularly green energy, which is a crucial component of sustainable development. Expanding the use of renewable energy, principally hydroelectricity, contributes to Tajikistan’s economic and social development while keeping harmful emissions into the atmosphere as low as possible. Hydropower plants, which generate about 98 per cent of our electricity, form the basis of the country’s energy sector.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“The number of days with heavy precipitation has increased, as have the frequency and intensity of natural hydro-meteorological events. Water-related natural disasters alone cost our economy hundreds of millions of dollars in damage every year. Natural disasters often claim human lives. The negative impact of climate change on the quantity and quality of the world’s freshwater resources is also becoming increasingly evident. In the past few decades Tajikistan has seen the surface area of its glaciers, which are vitally important to the whole of Central Asia, shrink significantly. In that regard, we believe it is essential to strengthen cooperation among countries in order to address the consequences of natural disasters by developing preventive measures and establishing funds to assist countries in need.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“In that regard, we support the call of the Secretary-General to act urgently and with purpose in order to successfully implement the 2030 Agenda in a timely manner. We have adopted a national development strategy for the period up to 2030 and a medium-term development plan from 2016 to 2020, both of which fully align with the 2030 Agenda and are key tools for ensuring national ownership of the SDGs in Tajikistan. However, we are also dealing with an array of new issues and problems, first and foremost of which, in our view, is climate change, which seriously affects the process of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and their targets. Over the past 60 years, the average annual air temperature in Tajikistan has increased by 1°C.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“One of the important areas in that regard is involving Afghanistan in the process of multilateral regional cooperation and the creation of conditions that will help to fulfil the transit potential of the country and the region. Tajikistan fully supports the efforts of the Afghanistan authorities to establish a peaceful negotiation process. This is a very important year for taking stock of the results of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The four-year cycle of the High-level Political forum on Sustainable Development has been successfully completed. We have plenty of room for enhancing our efforts to implement the 2030 Agenda over the next 11 years, since the current pace of progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is insufficient, despite significant efforts.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“We hope that Member States will support that initiative. Security and stability in Central Asia are closely linked to developments in Afghanistan. Tajikistan’s border with Afghanistan is the longest of any country, and since the first days of our independence we have therefore worked consistently to promote lasting peace and stability in our neighbour. We are also making a practical contribution to Afghanistan’s social and economic development by connecting our two countries’ transport corridors through an energy bridge, the Central Asia-South Asia Electricity Transmission and Trade Project, which provides the Afghan people with electricity and essential commodities, as well as by training specialists.”
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“Illicit drug trafficking is one of the primary sources of terrorism financing. As my country is on the front lines of the battle against that evil, we have done a great deal to address it since becoming independent. At the direction of President Emomali Rahmon of Tajikistan, our national drug enforcement agency was established in 1999 with the support of the United Nations. In 2013 we adopted a national counter-narcotics strategy for the period from 2013 to 2020. In what we see as an important and timely initiative, President Rahmon has proposed establishing, with the support of the United Nations, a special group that would include representatives of law-enforcement agencies from the countries of the so-called Northern Route, with the participation of experts researching issues related to illicit drug trafficking.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“We are confident that the Dushanbe conference will serve as an important platform for comprehensive dialogue and the exchange of best practices and experiences among all interested parties. Issues related to combating terrorism and extremism were also discussed at the fifth Summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia, held in Dushanbe on 15 June. As the current Chair of the Conference, we believe it important to advance our countries’ efforts to promote peace, stability and security in Asia, which should focus on dismantling the military infrastructure of international terrorism, denying it political, military and financial support and preventing the misuse of the Internet for radicalization, recruitment and propagandizing for extremism and violence.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“Today Tajikistan is doing its utmost to help to combat terrorism and extremism, transnational organized crime and illicit drug trafficking. Given our years of experience in peacebuilding and in preventing and countering terrorism, as well as combating illicit drug trafficking, in May in Dushanbe we held a high-level conference on international and regional cooperation on countering terrorism and its financing through illicit drug trafficking and organized crime. The Dushanbe conference was the first in a series of regional initiatives within the framework of the follow-up process to the High-level Conference of Heads of Counter-Terrorism Agencies of Member States convened by the Secretary-General on 28 and 29 June 2018 in New York.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“We believe it is essential to marshal all the tools at the Organization’s disposal and to improve our joint efforts. We must also strengthen our commitment to maintaining the rules-based order, with an effectively functioning United Nations at its centre. In that regard, Tajikistan supports the Secretary-General’s efforts to promote comprehensive reform of the Organization, aimed at strengthening and enhancing its capacity to counter today’s challenges and threats in a timely and effective manner. Terrorism and extremism, together with transnational organized crime and illicit drug trafficking, undermine international peace and security, aggravate conflicts and destabilize entire regions. They hinder our efforts to advance and protect human rights and promote sustainable development.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“It gives me great pleasure to join in the heartfelt congratulations extended to Mr. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande on his election as President of the General Assembly at its seventy-fourth session. I would also like to express my appreciation to Ms. Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garces for her excellent work as President of the Assembly at its seventy-third session. For nearly 75 years the United Nations has been a universal platform for discussing and resolving urgent issues of the day. However, the world we live in is changing rapidly. The current unstable situation, in a context of growing geopolitical and economic competition as well as increasing numbers of global threats and challenges, demands that we act effectively and consistently.”
2019-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 74 (2019)
“Comprehensive reform of the United Nations should contribute to its strengthening and the enhancement of its capacity to respond to the latest developments in the world in a timely and adequate manner and to meet modern challenges and counteract modern threats. The current Assembly session provides a unique opportunity for the search of joint coordinated ways of addressing pressing issues, which we need take full advantage of.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“In early September, Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, hosted the fourteenth summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). The heads of the SCO member States called for the strengthening of regional cooperation, joint development and mutual prosperity. They adopted measures on the liberalization of trade and investment and the improvement of transport and communications systems and on ensuring food and energy security. They also addressed other urgent regional issues of fundamental interest to our people. In conclusion, I would like to stress that it is impossible to resolve the issues facing the General Assembly without strengthening, reforming, rationalizing and updating the entire United Nations system.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“The involvement of neighbouring countries in the development of Afghanistan, while taking into account the regional context in the post-conflict rehabilitation of the country, is key to the success of the ongoing efforts of the international community. In our view, strengthening lasting peace and stability in conflict and post-conflict situations requires genuine assistance in addressing economic and social issues and support for efforts to restore effective Government institutions and a sustainable basis for long-term development. The regional multilateral structures must actively participate in strengthening security and stability, in implementing large-scale infrastructure projects and programmes and in expanding constructive and concrete cooperation and interaction.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“In that regard, we attach great significance to coordinated and joint efforts with Afghanistan in combating drugs, as well as on other issues. The friendly Islamic State of Afghanistan is facing new challenges and expects the appropriate support from the international community. We are convinced that the fraternal Afghan people, with the support of the community of nations, will be able to successfully address the difficulties facing them. We believe that, in the current circumstances, the United Nations must take the lead in coordinating international efforts for the resolution of the question of Afghanistan. Tajikistan believes that Afghanistan must be fully involved in the multifaceted regional cooperation process. It is critical to fully include Afghanistan in the multifaceted regional cooperation processes.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“In recent decades, Tajikistan has gained extensive experience in combating drug trafficking. Under the country’s President, the Drug Control Agency has been functioning successfully for 15 years. We have been actively strengthening counter- narcotics cooperation with neighbouring States, including within regional organizations. At the initiative of the President of the Republic of Tajikistan, Emomali Rahmon, Dushanbe will host a regional anti-narcotics conference in 2015, a year before the special session of the General Assembly on the world drug problem. The proposals of the conference participants will jointly help to develop a new international counter-narcotics policy. We look forward to the support of the United Nations, relevant States and international organizations for that conference.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“We should support and encourage as much as possible way the efforts of that group of countries to expand and to improve transport and energy infrastructure, the diversification of the economy and the streamlining of regional and interregional connectivity. While the Organization’s transformative agenda provides unique opportunities, unfortunately, it also tends to strengthen the interlinkage between today’s threats and challenges. It is in the common interests of Member States to consistently implement the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy and to effectively counter terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, including the use of the Internet for the purpose of terror. Illicit drug production and drug trafficking are also serious global issues.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“Through such projects, Tajikistan is significantly and specifically contributing to the reduction of harmful emissions and to the establishment of a solid foundation for sustainable development. I would like to take this opportunity to underscore that all those projects are being implemented in a transparent way, with due consideration for the social, economic and ecological aspects of the sustainable development of the country and the entire region. Tajikistan supports the holding of the Ten-Year Review Conference on the Implementation of the Almaty Programme of Action on 3 to 5 November in Vienna. We believe that the new programme of action for the landlocked least developed countries will provide additional opportunities for the further integration of such countries into the world economy.”
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“In that regard, we propose conducting a comprehensive review of the implementation of the International Decade of Action, “Water for Life”, 2005-2015, and jointly developing specific recommendations to strengthen and revitalize the United Nations water agenda. We believe access to modern and affordable energy services to be a key priority for achieving sustainable development. Tajikistan continues to consistently and comprehensively develop its energy potential, focusing on the integrated development of renewable sources. In addition to the construction of small- and medium- scale hydropower plants, larger regional projects are being developed. We are also exploring opportunities for the use of wind and solar energy.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“The International Year of Water Cooperation, which took place last year in the context of promoting the International Decade of Action, “Water for Life”, 2005-2015, underscored the need for water resources management to be regulated on the basis of the principle of joint development, which provides for a broad framework for the harmonization of interests and the strengthening of mutual trust in addressing water issues. On the basis of the principle of joint development, water resources management could ensure the sustainable management of water resources, which is a key component of sustainable development.”
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“At the same time, global climate change, increasing economic growth, higher population levels, the degradation of water sources and the deteriorating quality of water resources present the international community with additional extensive challenges. The reduction in water resources as a result of climate change may impede the achievement of sustainable development and aggravate the situation, in particular in arid and semi-arid regions, which continue to experience the greatest water shortages.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“We are willing to closely cooperate in a transparent way with United Nations agencies and programmes, partner countries and other relevant organizations. As members may be aware, on 22 March 2005, in New York, we saw the launch of the International Decade for Action, “Water for Life”, 2005-2015, which promoted the coordinated implementation of the MDGs. The International Decade provided a strong impetus for various initiatives and efforts at different levels to promote access to safe drinking water and sanitation, to advance the integrated management of water resources, to strengthen and expand water cooperation and to raise awareness of water-related challenges.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“The National Development Strategy of the Republic of Tajikistan up to 2015 is a road map for the Government to achieve sustainable economic growth, to provide the population with better access to basic social services and to reduce poverty. As a result of such measures to ensure economic growth, in recent years we have managed to significantly reduce the level of poverty in the country. As a United Nations pilot country for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, we plan to carry out a comprehensive review of the implementation of those Goals in Tajikistan in 2015. The lessons learned from the implementation of the MDGs will be taken into account during the development of a new programme of sustainable development for the period up to 2030.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“On that basis, new global partnerships should be established for the benefit of sustainable development, which will become the key element of the global system of promoting and advancing sustainable development. In that regard, we note the key importance of the recommendations of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts on Sustainable Development Financing, the intergovernmental process tasked with discussing proposals to establish a United Nations mechanism to promote development and technology transfer. Tajikistan has consistently strengthened its efforts to achieve the MDGs. Extra measures have been undertaken to create a favourable investment climate, including a balanced budget policy, diversifying the economy and increasing employment opportunities.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“Our hope is that this forum will become an important venue for ongoing dialogue and review of the implementation of the sustainable development goals. Addressing issues concerning the financing of sustainable development efforts is equally important in achieving sustainable development. Global partnerships for development based on the Millennium Declaration have contributed to a certain extent towards the achievement of a number of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). However, gaps and flaws in global partnerships continue to cause additional difficulties on the path towards full and timely implementation of the MDGs. We consider it necessary to strengthen and expand global partnerships in accordance with previous commitments.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“The main goal of the post-2015 development agenda should be the eradication of poverty and inequality, as well as promoting sustainable development based on balanced consideration of social, economic and environmental factors. The sustainable development goals, based on the three pillars of sustainable development, the Rio de Janeiro principles and national specificities and priorities, should serve as the key components of the post-2015 development agenda. In that respect, we support the recommendations of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals. Experience has shown that a goal can be achieved only if specific plans are complemented by the development of effective mechanisms for its review and implementation.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“It is my great pleasure to endorse the warm congratulations extended to Mr. Sam Kutesa on his election to the responsible post of President of the General Assembly at its sixty-ninth session. I take this opportunity to express gratitude to Mr. John Ashe for his important contribution to the work of the General Assembly at its prior session. My delegation shares the determination to eradicate hunger and poverty and to promote progress in elaborating the post-2015 development agenda. In our view, the post-2015 development agenda must be based on the foundation of the development goals formulated in the Millennium Declaration (resolution 55/2) and envisage ways and means of responding to the challenges of a new generation.”
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