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Sirodjidin Aslov

lines on the record: 33
first: 2007-09-24
most recent: 2016-09-24
sittings or episodes: 2
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“The proposed International Decade will complement other initiated mechanisms, notably the High-level Panel on 2030 Global Water Architecture, and it can serve to fill any gaps that may arise in the implementation of new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.”
2016-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 71 (2016)
“It adopted a call for action that invites the international community to deepen its cooperation at all levels to address emerging water issues, to improve capacity in the implementation and monitoring of integrated water resources management and to support an International Decade for Action “Water for Sustainable Development”, 2018-2028. I would like to express our sincere gratitude to all Member States for their active participation in the Symposium. I hope that the members of the Assembly will also support the proposed International Decade, which will strengthen and enhance the progress achieved during the previous International Decade for Action, “Water for Life”, 2005-2015, and will create a solid platform for the consolidation of our efforts aimed at the sustainable management of water resources in the post-2015 period.”
2016-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 71 (2016)
“Those were among the issues related to the implementation of the global water agenda discussed at the High-level Symposium on SDG 6 and Targets: Ensuring that No One Is Left Behind in Access to Water and Sanitation, held in Dushanbe on 9 and 10 August and jointly organized by the Government of Tajikistan, the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs and various United Nations agencies. The Symposium provided a platform for a balanced discussion of policy measures, actions and the means to fast-track the implementation of the water-related SDGs and targets.”
2016-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 71 (2016)
“That melting of glaciers and ice caps has caused increased frequency and intensity of natural disasters and the deterioration of ecosystems, which have translated to significant financial and material losses for the national economy and, unfortunately, have caused human casualties. Nevertheless, the new water agenda is achievable. We have observed that significant progress can be made when countries and regions commit to prioritizing water challenges. What is clear is that countries and the international community as a whole must work together and undertake coordinated efforts and adopt both urgent and long-term measures. That is particularly true when water is shared among various sectors — health, agriculture, energy and navigation, for example — or when surface and groundwater are shared among communities and between countries.”
2016-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 71 (2016)
“I would like to emphasize that the 2030 Agenda regards water as the most essential element of life and the main component of development. That is a 16-29811 35/52 positive shift, which makes the new water agenda more comprehensive and integrated by comparison with the previous water agenda, framed within the Millennium Development Goals. In that regard, we should take into consideration the fact that climate change, as well as the processes of urbanization and population growth, will certainly exacerbate any challenges. In addition, as a result of climate change, water shortages in many parts of the world will increase owing, first of all, to a reduction in the scale of glaciers and the snowpack. For instance, in Tajikistan during the past 35 to 40 years more than 1,000 massive glaciers out of a total of 13,000 have melted completely.”
2016-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 71 (2016)
“In our endeavours to achieve sustainable development, we need to remember our collective determination to lend a hand to countries that are confronted with difficulties. We need to remember that a number of countries will begin their implementation of the new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in unfavourable conditions. In particular, there is a need to provide support to countries in special situations, especially the least developed countries, landlocked developing countries and small island developing States. Access to modern and cost-efficient energy services is key to achieving sustainable development. Tajikistan actively supports the Secretary-General’s Sustainable Energy for All initiative and the United Nations 2014- 2024 Decade of Sustainable Energy for All.”
2016-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 71 (2016)
“There is a need to mobilize additional financial resources, including official development assistance, which is the main component in financing development. Under the current circumstances, it is essential to revitalize international trade and investments, which are the main engines of productive growth, and encourage and promote transfers of innovative and ecologically sound technologies. The implementation of the 2030 Agenda also requires clear and transparent mechanisms to follow up and review both progress and problems. As a new and first-time member of the Economic and Social Council, Tajikistan is willing to do its part in strengthening and coordinating the efforts to address the complex issues of achieving sustainable development.”
2016-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 71 (2016)
“We call for the expansion of targeted assistance to Afghanistan aimed at economic rehabilitation, the strengthening of its social conditions and the creation of new jobs in its economy. We are ready to take part in rehabilitating the social and economic infrastructure of Afghanistan by connecting the transport arteries of our two countrie by creating an energy bridge known as CASA-1000, and providing the Afghan population with essential commodities and training for specialists. We are at the beginning of a transformation process that started with the setting of a new agenda that reflects the hopes and desires of every one of us for a decent and secure future. It is obvious that the path to sustainable development will be neither easy nor smooth. At the same time, our political will should be reinforced by adequate means of implementation.”
2016-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 71 (2016)
“We therefore support international and regional efforts aimed at restoring and strengthening peace and stability in the Middle East, including the efforts to resume and accelerate credible negotiations under the Middle East peace process. Tajikistan supports the international strategy for a comprehensive settlement and post-conflict reconstruction in Afghanistan. We need to strengthen our support to the Government of Afghanistan, especially during Afghanistan’s transformation decade 2015-2024. It is important for Afghanistan to become involved in the process of regional integration by strengthening its economic and trade ties with its neighbouring countries.”
2016-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 71 (2016)
“The special session of the General Assembly on the world drug problem, held in April 2016, provided a unique opportunity for seeking new and additional ways of strengthening cooperation in combating the root causes of the drug problem and dealing with its consequences. During its membership on the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, Tajikistan will continue its cooperation with donor countries and international organizations, including the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, in order to implement the outcome document of the special session resolution S-30/1, annex). Tajikistan stands for a comprehensive settlement of the crises in the Middle East, which will contribute to enhancing global security.”
2016-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 71 (2016)
“There is also a need to strengthen intercultural and interfaith dialogue, mutual trust and tolerance. In that context, the United Nations remains the key platform for achieving consensus on the main issues of international security and development and for coordinating joint action by the international community in addressing the challenges and threats of today. Eliminating illicit drug trafficking, which has become a breeding ground for terrorism and organized crime, requires the joint and concerted actions of the entire international community. We believe that the fight against drug trafficking is an essential part of the fight against organized crime, terrorism and extremism, and we reaffirm that international cooperation on drug control will remain a priority of the Government of Tajikistan.”
2016-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 71 (2016)
“Destructive and inhumane forces of terrorism and extremism have been gaining power by attracting into their orbits ever-increasing numbers of youth, thereby seriously undermining efforts to maintain security and peaceful development. Combating international terrorism and extremism has become a top priority. There is a need to develop national, regional and international mechanisms aimed at eliminating military infrastructure, channels for financial and logistical support, recruitment and violent propaganda, including counteracting the use of modern Internet and computer technology for terrorism purposes. Moreover, it is essential that we jointly seek ways of addressing the issue of poverty, the negative impact of globalization, and conflict prevention and settlement.”
2016-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 71 (2016)
“His competent and effective leadership has been a positive force in reforming the Secretariat, easing crises and disputes, addressing current and emerging challenges and elaborating a new agenda on sustainable development and climate change. For all of those efforts, I would like to convey the sincere gratitude of the people of the Republic of Tajikistan. The year 2015 was momentous because of the adoption of a number of key documents aimed at strengthening the global development agenda. Those documents are interrelated and will define the path of our development in the coming decades. However, we have been less successful in addressing issues affecting international peace and security. Armed conflicts continue to pose a growing threat in various regions of the world.”
2016-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 71 (2016)
“It gives me a great pleasure to join the cordial congratulations on the well-deserved election of the President of the General Assembly at its seventy-first session. We are confident that his wisdom, diplomatic experience and skill will contribute to the success of the current session, and my delegation would like to assure him of its full cooperation to that end. I would also like to take this opportunity to commend his predecessor, His Excellency Mr. Mogens Lykketoft, for his able leadership during the previous session. I also avail myself of this opportunity to express our sincere appreciation to His Excellency Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, for his tireless efforts during his two terms in promoting global peace and security, development and well-being for all peoples of the world.”
2016-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 71 (2016)
“There is no doubt that all of us must do our utmost to make the United Nations even more effective in addressing current issues. For that reason, we believe that all of us must shoulder our responsibilities towards the Organization, in the interests of all Member States.”
2007-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 62 (2007)
“The rehabilitation process in Afghanistan is creating favourable conditions for cooperation in the region in the implementation of transportation and communication projects aimed at gaining access to southern sea ports. The creation of new multi-optional transport corridors and the restoration of the Great Silk Road routes seek to establish a unified interconnected system of communications and to provide the Central Asian States with reliable access to promising markets. The August opening of the bridge across the Pyandj River between Tajikistan and Afghanistan was among the practical measures taken to achieve that goal. The magnitude of the challenges facing the international community requires the further strengthening of our Organization.”
2007-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 62 (2007)
“As for the development of trade and economic cooperation with other countries, the major challenge that Tajikistan is facing in this area is lack of access to the sea and other transportation and communication difficulties. For this reason, Tajikistan is committed to the decisions and recommendations outlined in the Almaty Programme of Action for transit transport cooperation, which addresses the special needs of landlocked developing countries to efficiently use the available transport infrastructure and to increase transit capacity in order to encourage development of trade and the advancement of investments in Central Asia.”
2007-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 62 (2007)
“However, it is obvious that the region has already been experiencing water-related difficulties that can become more aggravated on a yearly basis. To address this urgent problem, Tajikistan proposes to provide the Central Asian States with environmentally sound freshwater from Lake Sarez, which is located at a height of almost 3,300 metres above sea level and which could provide freshwater to half the population of Central Asia. The implementation of this initiative would make it possible to eliminate the real threat of an overflow of Lake Sarez, which could affect millions of people who reside in the downstream areas in neighbouring countries.”
2007-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 62 (2007)
“For this reason, the implementation of the International Decade for Action “Water for Life”, proclaimed by the United Nations on the initiative of the Republic of Tajikistan, is regarded as even more timely and appropriate. As part of the Decade, the Government of Tajikistan has planned an international conference for 2008 in Dushanbe on water-related natural disasters, to be held in cooperation with United Nations agencies and other international organizations. Tajikistan hopes that all United Nations Member States will participate actively in this conference. From time immemorial the water originating in Tajikistan has quenched the thirst of all nations of Central Asia and has irrigated the dry steppes of the region.”
2007-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 62 (2007)
“According to various sources, over the last 10 years the area of glaciers in Tajikistan has decreased by 30 to 35 per cent. Although supplying the population with drinking water is being discussed at the top level, and the fact that numerous declarations and other international instruments have already been adopted on this issue, the situation remains urgent. The solution of the problem requires further coordinated efforts on behalf of countries and international organizations. This problem is not only addressed in the Millennium Development Goals, but it is also ranked among those challenges that the world community encounters on a daily basis.”
2007-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 62 (2007)
“Tajikistan is interested in getting support and establishing a partnership with countries and international organizations in the field of renewable sources of energy and energy-efficient technologies, which help to reduce the usage of other traditional types of energy that negatively affect our climate and do enormous damage to the environment and to the future of humanity. Tajikistan welcomes the High-Level Event on Climate Change held recently in New York and the forthcoming conference on the same subject to be held in Bali in December 2007. Within the context of global warming, degradation of glaciers and the snow cover on the territories of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, which are the upper watershed zones of Central Asia’s rivers, has become an ever increasing concern for the Central Asian region.”
2007-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 62 (2007)
“For instance, the completion of the construction of the Ragun hydropower station in Tajikistan alone will make it possible to supply an extra three million hectares of land with water in the neighbouring Central Asian states. Only an integrated approach towards the use of hydropower and other natural resources of the region, based on the principles of mutual understanding, assistance and trust among the States of the region, can ensure sustainable development in the region and promote a resolution of environmental problems, which are closely interconnected with the rational use of those resources.”
2007-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 62 (2007)
“In that connection, Tajikistan believes it has the right to develop the hydropower sector of the economy by building water reservoirs and dams on the major rivers of the country, because sustainable development, improved living standards of the population, achievement of the MDGs, the provision of reliable regulated irrigation water flows and an increased production of electrical energy depend on the availability of hydropower resources. Not only is the implementation of hydropower projects in Tajikistan extremely advantageous for the country itself, but it will also be able to influence favourably the sustainable development of the other States of the region.”
2007-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 62 (2007)
“Tajikistan wholeheartedly supports the creation of a mechanism of additional measures aimed at making further progress in the realization of the right to development, as enshrined in the Declaration on the Right to Development. Among the issues that should be regarded as associated with that right are the rational usage of natural resources for the purpose of development, provision for the well-being of the population and addressing the problems of poverty and unemployment.”
2007-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 62 (2007)
“The proposal to pardon the debts incurred by developing countries in exchange for the implementation of national projects aimed at sustainable development remains equally important. In this connection, we attach much significance to the unification of efforts aimed at supporting sustainable financing for development, first and foremost, in the interests of attaining the MDGs. We are in favour of a joint search for effective and feasible development financing mechanisms. Partial writing off of debts could be equally important, since it would make it possible to invest liberated funds into education, environmental protection, combating HIV/AIDS and other MDGs.”
2007-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 62 (2007)
“The main purpose of the National Strategy for Development of the Republic of Tajikistan up to the year 2015 and the Strategy for Poverty Reduction in Tajikistan for the years 2007-2009 is to ensure stable economic development and to provide a better standard of living for the country’s population. It is also obvious that the attainment of the MDGs, to a large extent, also depends on the attitude of the international community when it comes to rendering assistance to developing countries and on the timely mobilization of internal and external resources. With this in mind, Tajikistan joins the appeal addressed to the donor community to at least double the amount of assistance targeted for development.”
2007-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 62 (2007)
“These events provide convincing proof that the United Nations has the capacity to assist in reaching a peace and in ensuring further sustainable development in a country that has lived through serious internal conflict. For Tajikistan, like for most United Nations Member States, the achievement of sustainable development is a high priority goal. Within the United Nations framework, much has been accomplished the world over in order to promote sustainable development and to alleviate poverty, epidemics, famine and illiteracy. Meanwhile, the implementation of a large-scale programme on the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will require not only extra effort but also additional resources. Tajikistan’s intention is to realize the greatest possible progress in the implementation of the MDGs.”
2007-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 62 (2007)
“In this regard, I would like to reiterate Tajikistan’s willingness to continue constructive dialogue and cooperation with the aim of establishing an effective global partnership for counteracting the narcotics threat. An international conference dedicated to the tenth anniversary of the signing of the General Agreement on the Establishment of Peace and National Accord in Tajikistan was held in Dushanbe in June 2007, in cooperation with the United Nations. Almost simultaneously, the United Nations Tajikistan Office of Peacebuilding successfully concluded its activities. Moreover, for the first time, the citizens of my country joined international United Nations peacekeeping operations.”
2007-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 62 (2007)
“We believe that long-term success in combating terrorism and religious extremism depends on eliminating the root causes of these negative phenomena associated with social and economic problems within society. It is essential to jointly search for ways of addressing poverty issues, overcoming negative consequences of globalization, and resolving internal and regional conflicts. Actions based on force alone will not be able to uproot terrorism. Regrettably, today, we witness the merging of terrorism with transnational organized crime and the drug trade, which gives rise to our shared and justifiable concern. Prevention of illicit drug trafficking, which, to a certain extent, is the breeding ground for terrorism and international crime, should become part and parcel of our common struggle against terrorism.”
2007-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 62 (2007)
“The international community should intensify its efforts aimed at counteracting the commission of acts of terror and the proliferation of ideologies based on terrorism, extremism and separatism, interreligious and inter-ethnic intolerance and hostility, and should enhance its struggle against the financing of terrorism. The global system of combating terrorism, which is currently taking shape, cannot be established without the involvement of regional and subregional organizations. In our region, the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization are serving this purpose.”
2007-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 62 (2007)
“In cooperation with other Central Asian States, Tajikistan took a very active part in the drafting of the Treaty on a Nuclear-Weapon-Free-Zone in Central Asia, which was signed on 8 September 2006 in Semipalatinsk, and in the adoption of the relevant General Assembly resolution (A/Res/61/88) last year. It is common knowledge that international terrorism, transnational organized crime and illicit drug trafficking have become a serious obstacle on the road towards sustainable development, inflicting much suffering and causing trouble to humanity.”
2007-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 62 (2007)
“Tajikistan welcomes the continued reforms of the United Nations structure and enhancement of its activities aimed at strengthening peace and international security, furthering the promotion of human rights, expanding its humanitarian mission, placing the problem of climate change as an issue of top priority and addressing today’s other challenges. We believe that further progress in dealing with these issues of global importance is dependent on joint, concerted and consistent actions of the entire international community. Tajikistan attaches primary importance to the further strengthening of the disarmament process, the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, the speedy entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty and activation of negotiations on the establishment of nuclear-weapon-free zones.”
2007-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 62 (2007)
“First of all, I would like to join in the sincere congratulations on your election as the President of the General Assembly at its sixty-second session and wish you every success in this lofty office. I would also like to avail myself to this opportunity to express gratitude to your predecessor, Her Excellency Mrs. Haya Rashed Al-Khalifa, for her selfless and efficient work during the sixty-first session. We also join in the words of welcome addressed to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki-moon.”
2007-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 62 (2007)