Distinguished President Volkan Bozkir! Distinguished Secretary-General António Guterres!

United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Youth.


In addition, we propose to adopt a special resolution of the United Nations General Assembly on enhancing the role of parliaments in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and ensuring human rights.


Dear friends!


The fundamental changes are taking place now in the region of Central Asia. We have managed to create an atmosphere of good neighbourliness, mutual trust, friendship and mutual respect among the states of the region.


Our common achievement is consultative summits of the Central Asian Heads of State, which was put forth as an initiative at the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly and has been regularly held since then.


Over the past four years, Uzbekistan’s bilateral trade with neighbouring states has grown almost five-fold.


During these days of trial our countries are standing by and not leaving one another alone.


Today, the Central Asian states face an important strategic task. This is to ensure deep integration of our region into the global economic, transport and transit corridors.


In this regard, we propose to establish a Regional Centre for the Development of Transport and Communications under the auspices of the United Nations.


Today, the effective security cooperation is maintained in Central Asia. The United Nations Global Anti-Terrorism Strategy is being successfully implemented.


We stand up for conducting the International conference on the ten-year results and forthcoming prospects of this Joint Plan of the Regional Strategy.


As it is well-known, the ancient cultural and rich spiritual heritage of our region is of global importance. We are ready to hold the International Forum “Central Asia at the Crossroads of World Civilizations” in the ancient city of Khiva in 2021 in cooperation with UNESCO.


Dear participants of the session!


We see Afghanistan as an integral part of Central Asia. The Tashkent High-Level Conference on Afghanistan in March 2018 marked a new stage in the mobilization of the international community’s efforts to resolve the Afghan problem.


We fully support the peace talks among the Afghan political forces launched this year in the city of Doha in September. We express hope that these talks will serve for bringing in peace and stability in the long-suffering land of Afghanistan.


In order to broadly involve Afghanistan in the process of economic integration in the region, we have started the implementation of major infrastructure projects such as "Surkhan – Puli Khumri" power line and construction of a railway from Mazar-i-Sharif to the sea ports of the Indian Ocean.


We believe that the issues of ensuring peace and stability in Afghanistan must remain a constant focus of the United Nations.


Only together and through close cooperation we can realize all the dreams and aspirations of the Afghan people. In this regard, it is important to work on the principle of “From instability and destruction – to peace and prosperity”. To this end, we propose to