The Turkmen delegation headed by Chairperson of Mejlis A. Nurberdyeva participated in the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s 15th Winter Meeting, which took place in Vienna, the capital of the Republic of Austria. The forum brought together about 300 parliamentarians from 57 OSCE participating States and Partners for Cooperation.
During the visit the head of Turkmen Parliament had a meeting with Second President of the National Council of Austria Karlheinz Kopf and President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Ilkka Kanerva and presented the report at the meeting of the General Committee on Economic Affairs, Science, Technology and Environment that spotlighted Turkmenistan’s views on the topical issues put on the agenda of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly.
Turkmenistan that is committed to broad and constructive partnership with the OSCE has put forward a number of initiatives and concrete proposals in recent years to improve the activities of the OSCE, unite efforts to promote its key goals and objectives and strengthen the legal and institutional framework for joint work. The most important ones include the development of the OSCE Security Strategy, the OSCE economic concept, the OSCE comprehensive environmental programme, the formation of the Council for Sustainable Energy, the Transportation Policy Commission, the development of the long-term OSCE Platform for Action in the human dimension and other initiatives.
The international community pays close attention to the initiatives of the President of Turkmenistan to establish the centres for preventive diplomacy in certain regions in the OSCE area. Our country is firmly convinced of the need for the wider use of the forms and methods of preventive diplomacy in addressing the existing problems and the elimination of the causes of conflicts that ultimately jeopardize security.
Turkmenistan put forward the strategic initiatives to achieve energy security, create effective national, regional and intercontinental multimodal infrastructure of transport and transit corridors designed to orient the global economy to sustainable growth.
Through jointly working on the OSCE platform, Turkmenistan proposes to conduct a detailed analysis of the opportunities to develop and improve multilateral cooperation within an Economic and Environmental Forum to achieve sustainable development. In particular, it is proposed to consider the possibility of forming the structures that will coordinate efforts in the most important segments of the economy, such as energy, industry, transport and trade.
The identification of new approaches to addressing economic issues is directly interrelated with the improvement of joint activities in the environmental dimension. In this regard, it would be appropriate to move towards the search and introduction of advanced solutions for the long term. One of such approaches could be the OSCE Comprehensive Environmental Programme that would allow specifying the priorities of the Organization in the environmental field.
Turkmenistan put forward the idea of establishing the OSCE Centre for environmental technologies that would aim at applying innovative solutions in practice and coordinating joint efforts in the environmental field. This approach is also reflected in the important initiatives of President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov to open the Regional Centre for Climate Change Technologies for Central Asia, develop the special UN programme to save the Aral Sea and the UN Water Strategy and establish effective mechanisms of multilateral cooperation to ensure environmental and anthropogenic safety on the Caspian Sea.
During the visit the head of Turkmen Parliament had a meeting with Second President of the National Council of Austria Karlheinz Kopf and President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Ilkka Kanerva and presented the report at the meeting of the General Committee on Economic Affairs, Science, Technology and Environment that spotlighted Turkmenistan’s views on the topical issues put on the agenda of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly.
Turkmenistan that is committed to broad and constructive partnership with the OSCE has put forward a number of initiatives and concrete proposals in recent years to improve the activities of the OSCE, unite efforts to promote its key goals and objectives and strengthen the legal and institutional framework for joint work. The most important ones include the development of the OSCE Security Strategy, the OSCE economic concept, the OSCE comprehensive environmental programme, the formation of the Council for Sustainable Energy, the Transportation Policy Commission, the development of the long-term OSCE Platform for Action in the human dimension and other initiatives.
The international community pays close attention to the initiatives of the President of Turkmenistan to establish the centres for preventive diplomacy in certain regions in the OSCE area. Our country is firmly convinced of the need for the wider use of the forms and methods of preventive diplomacy in addressing the existing problems and the elimination of the causes of conflicts that ultimately jeopardize security.
Turkmenistan put forward the strategic initiatives to achieve energy security, create effective national, regional and intercontinental multimodal infrastructure of transport and transit corridors designed to orient the global economy to sustainable growth.
Through jointly working on the OSCE platform, Turkmenistan proposes to conduct a detailed analysis of the opportunities to develop and improve multilateral cooperation within an Economic and Environmental Forum to achieve sustainable development. In particular, it is proposed to consider the possibility of forming the structures that will coordinate efforts in the most important segments of the economy, such as energy, industry, transport and trade.
The identification of new approaches to addressing economic issues is directly interrelated with the improvement of joint activities in the environmental dimension. In this regard, it would be appropriate to move towards the search and introduction of advanced solutions for the long term. One of such approaches could be the OSCE Comprehensive Environmental Programme that would allow specifying the priorities of the Organization in the environmental field.
Turkmenistan put forward the idea of establishing the OSCE Centre for environmental technologies that would aim at applying innovative solutions in practice and coordinating joint efforts in the environmental field. This approach is also reflected in the important initiatives of President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov to open the Regional Centre for Climate Change Technologies for Central Asia, develop the special UN programme to save the Aral Sea and the UN Water Strategy and establish effective mechanisms of multilateral cooperation to ensure environmental and anthropogenic safety on the Caspian Sea.
