Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev Addresses UN General Assembly 80th Session

Global Challenges and UN Reform

• 🌍 The world faces a complex, rapidly changing global situation with weakening international institutions, intensifying conflicts, and deepening crises.
• 🤝 Uzbekistan supports Secretary-General Antonio Guterres' efforts and reaffirms commitment to the UN80 initiative and the Pact for the Future.
• ⚖️ Support is expressed for transforming and expanding the UN Security Council to better address current threats and protect developing countries' interests.

Uzbekistan's Domestic Reforms and Development

• 🇺🇿 Uzbekistan is pursuing a policy to build a democratic, secular nation aligned with Sustainable Development Goals, prioritizing reforms to enhance human dignity and well-being.
• 📉 Poverty has been significantly reduced from 35% to 6.6% through transformations in education, science, high-tech manufacturing, green energy, transport, and small business development.
• 🎓 Major improvements in preschool (27% to 78%) and higher education (9% to 42%) uptake are highlighted, with a proposal for a world summit on professional education.
• 🏥 An advanced healthcare system is being created, with an invitation to a high-level event on fighting childhood cancer.
• 👩‍💼 Gender policy aims to strengthen women's roles in social, political, and business life, advocating for a regular Asian Women's Forum.
• 📈 By 2030, Uzbekistan intends to join the ranks of upper-middle-income countries through an open and pragmatic policy.

Central Asia: Peace and Regional Integration

• 🕊️ Eight years ago, Central Asia was declared a region of peace, good neighborliness, and partnership, a strategic goal now achieved.
• 📈 The era of closed borders and unresolved disputes is over, with a five-fold increase in mutual trade, investments, and transportation.
• 🤝 The consultative meeting of Central Asian heads of state has become an effective mechanism for deepening regional integration, forming a new Central Asia.
• 🌍 Proposals include an international forum on economic development, a regional hub for green technologies, and programs for rational water resource use and green spaces.
• 📜 A UN General Assembly resolution supporting Central Asian regional partnership and economic integration is proposed.

Global and Regional Security Issues

• 🇦🇫 Support for Afghanistan's aspirations for peace requires united international efforts, emphasizing the need to prevent its isolation and proposing a UN resolution on transport and energy corridors through its territory.
• 🇵🇸 Deep concern is expressed over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, calling for an immediate cessation of hostilities and supporting the two-state solution.
• 🇺🇦 Welcome is extended to the high-level dialogue aimed at resolving the crisis in Ukraine through diplomatic means.
• 🛡️ In Central Asia, effective measures against terrorism are underway, with a proposal to transform a regional council on rehabilitation and reintegration into an international competence center.

Environmental and Digital Challenges

• 🚢 The vulnerability of global transport systems, particularly for landlocked developing countries, necessitates a global mechanism to strengthen transport connectivity.
• 🏜️ Climate change challenges, such as the Aral Sea desiccation, are a focus, with efforts to restore the ecosystem and plant desert plants.
• 💧 Water scarcity is a critical issue, with plans for a world forum on water saving to recognize the crisis and adopt a roadmap for innovation technologies.
• 🚶 Climate migration is an increasing concern, advocating for a global pact for international partnership and coordinated policy.
• 🤖 Preventing inequalities in digital development and AI use is crucial, proposing an international cooperation mechanism for exchanging AI solutions in healthcare, education, and culture.

Youth and Cultural Heritage

• 🌟 The destiny of the world is in the hands of the younger generation, with an urgent task to instill values of peace, humanism, and friendship.
• 🕊️ A proposal is put forward to establish a world youth movement for peace, with its headquarters in Uzbekistan.
• 🕌 Uzbekistan is implementing a policy of tolerance and promoting Islamic enlightenment, with plans to open a Center of Islamic Civilization.
• 📜 A UN presentation of the rich spiritual and scientific heritage of great thinkers like Imam Bukhari, Imam Termizi, and Imam Maturidi is intended.
• 🤝 Uzbekistan supports mutual solidarity, open dialogue, and partnership, contributing to dialogue among cultures and civilizations.