Mr. Chairman,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the United Nations
Commission on Sustainable Development for the kind invitation to share our views
and ideas on issues of sustainable development at present stage.
At present situation, when the modern world faces too many negative factors
such as climate change, frequent natural disasters, environmental disasters and
economic crises, decline of the world energy resources, provoking greater
vulnerability of the global economy, improving the mechanisms for cooperation
and joint decision-making become more urgent. In this context, we support the
statement made by Argentina on behalf of the Group of 77 + China. At the same
time, we would like to express some particular features of the process of
sustainable development in the Republic of Tajikistan. Despite the continuing
negative impact to the environment, the modern world needs to develop industry in
order to meet the progressively increasing need of the population in means of
subsistence. This is particularly true for the developing countries, particularly
Tajikistan. Consequently, the international community should take measures to
develop and implement mechanisms for sustainable development through the use
of balance of natural resources, production and consumption, and purposeful use of
renewable energy sources in order to ensure minimal damage to the environment
and prevent adverse environmental impacts.
On the global scale there is a tendency of crisis that have predominantly
social ground as employment and elimination of unemployment. Therefore, in
conditions of irregular dynamics of population growth in the world development
and effective use of human resources and human potential in regional and global
scales is becoming an important factor contributing to sustainable development.
Correct and consistent use of human resources through regional partnership would
allow solving such pressing social issues as employment and elimination of
unemployment, prevention and stabilization of demographic crises at the regional
level.
In order to ensure economic stability and sustainable development, the
Republic of Tajikistan on the basis of the Millennium Development Goals
developed a number of key strategic documents such as the National Development
Strategy and the Poverty Reduction Strategy, which identify needs and priorities of
the country, as well goals for development of national economy in the long and
medium terms.
The country has consistently carried out economic, as well as institutional
and structural reforms. All these changes led to qualitative changes in the economy
and its fairly rapid development. Measures taken in the country to ensure
macroeconomic stability have allowed to overcome the negative impact of the
global economic crisis.
Measures taken by the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan include
development of the national economy through modernization and diversification,
the development of high technology and energy industries, technological and
institutional renewal of production in order to improve its competitiveness. For this
purpose, the State Program of Innovative Development of the Republic of
Tajikistan for the period up to 2020 was adopted, which takes into account all
principles of sustainable development.
The Government intends to continue active solution of basic strategic goals
for achieving energy and food security.
It is known that Tajikistan is a predominantly agrarian country. In this
context, addressing issues of ensuring the country's food supply, increase of
production and reduction of losses of agricultural production through
intensification of production and introduction of new technologies, development of
industries for processing agricultural products are the main spheres of cooperation
with our development partners. This will ensure food security in the country taking
into account environmental security standards of the country.
The process of reforms of the agricultural sector with participation of
international experts and development partners include fundamental transformation
of production relations of agricultural producers, land management, improvement
of irrigation systems and water management, organizational and legal forms of
business entities and their economic self-sufficiency, improving local governance
and improvement of rural areas.
It should be noted that Tajikistan is a major center of glaciation in Central
Asia and the glaciers on its territory are not only repositories of water, but also
regulators of river flow and climate.
Currently, due to global warming, degradation of glaciers is increasing; this
process causes certain risks associated with natural disasters, degradation of
irrigated land and thus provokes decline in economic growth and undermine food
security.
In this regard, the Government of Tajikistan has adopted the State Program
for Study and Preservation of Glaciers of the Republic of Tajikistan for the period
up to 2030, which includes measures to improve monitoring and study of glaciers
in Tajikistan. This step demonstrates responsibility for future generations to
preserve a balance between the main elements of sustainable development:
economic, environmental and social issues. At the same time, Tajikistan is an open
country for regional and international cooperation in research, monitoring and
prediction of possible environmental changes and reduction of possible risks.
Under these conditions, formation, use and management of water resources in the
region will require development of a new mechanism, taking into account realities
of today.
In conclusion, I would like to note that the issues covered by the program of
the Session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development are very relevant
and reflect the real situation of the global economy. The Republic of Tajikistan
supports the idea of acceleration of integration processes in this area and will
actively participate in preparations for Rio+20 Conference.
Thank you.
