ISLAMABAD: Uzbekistan joined the UN as a brand new sovereign, impartial state on March 2, 1992. Since becoming a member of this common worldwide group, our nation has been productively cooperating with it and its specialised establishments in varied areas.

The primary priorities of multilateral cooperation are the combat towards trendy threats and safety challenges, the stabilization and restoration of Afghanistan, the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, fixing environmental issues, specifically mitigating the results of the Aral Sea disaster, socio-economic improvement, safety and promotion of human rights, tourism improvement, and others.

Based on specialists, lately, Uzbekistan has develop into extra concerned within the actions of the Common Meeting and specialised companies of the UN. Specifically, the top of Uzbekistan made speeches on the 72nd, seventy fifth, and 76th classes of the UN Common Meeting, in addition to on the Excessive-Stage Phase of the forty sixth session of the UN Human Rights Council.

In June 2017, the go to of UN Secretary-Common Antonio Guterres and his negotiations with the President of Uzbekistan, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, befell. The pinnacle of our state additionally held conferences with the UN Secretary Common in September 2017 in New York (USA) and throughout the 2nd Worldwide Discussion board “One Belt, One Highway” in April 2019 in Beijing (PRC). Because of these conferences, plans for sensible measures to develop cooperation between Uzbekistan and the UN have been adopted and are being carried out.

The participation of President Shavkat Mirziyoyev within the basic debates of the 72nd session of the Common Meeting in September 2017 opened a brand new stage of productive and mutually useful cooperation between our nation and the UN. Throughout this occasion, numerous essential worldwide initiatives have been put ahead, which have been efficiently carried out over the previous three years.

From the UN rostrum, the chief of Uzbekistan put ahead numerous essential worldwide initiatives on present points on the worldwide and regional agenda. Specifically, on the initiative of the management of Uzbekistan, six resolutions have been developed and adopted inside the UN Common Meeting: “Strengthening regional worldwide cooperation to make sure peace, stability, and sustainable improvement within the Central Asian area” (June 2018), “Schooling and spiritual tolerance” (December 2018), “Sustainable tourism and improvement in Central Asia” (December 2019), “On declaring the Aral Sea area a zone of environmental innovation and expertise” (Could 2021), “On strengthening interconnectedness between Central and South Asia” (July 2022), “On the position of parliaments in reaching the SDGs” (December 2022).

As well as, inside the framework of the UN Human Rights Council, on the initiative of Uzbekistan, a decision was adopted “On the results of the COVID-19 pandemic for the human rights of youth” (October 2021) and at UNESCO – “The Khiva Course of” (November 2021) following the outcomes of the worldwide discussion board “Central Asia on the crossroads of world civilizations” (September 14–16, 2021, Khiva).

The Code on Voluntary Commitments of States throughout Pandemics, developed by the Uzbek facet, has been distributed as an official doc of the UN Common Meeting as Uzbekistan’s contribution to the worldwide efforts to fight COVID-19. Supporting the brand new spirit of multilateral interplay, Uzbekistan, along with member nations, is at present growing drafts for numerous Common Meeting resolutions for his or her additional adoption inside the UN.

Since 1993, the UN workplace has been working in Tashkent. In Uzbekistan, the “UN household” is represented by the United Nations Improvement Program (UNDP), the United Nations Inhabitants Fund (UNFPA), the United Nations Kids’s Fund (UNICEF), the World Well being Group (WHO), and the United Nations Academic, Scientific, and Cultural Group (UNESCO), United Nations Workplace on Medicine and Crime (UNODC), UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Girls (UN Girls), UN Regional Heart for Preventive Diplomacy in Central Asia (UNRCCA), Worldwide Labor Group (ILO) ), the Meals and Agriculture Group of the United Nations (FAO), the Worldwide Group for Migration (IOM), and the UN Volunteers Program led by UNDP.

Companies such because the United Nations Industrial Improvement Group (UNIDO), the United Nations Surroundings Program (UNEP), and the United Nations Financial Fee for Europe (UNECE) additionally contribute to the work of the UN system. The World Financial institution, as an impartial specialised company of the UN system, additionally makes a big contribution to the work of the group in our nation.

The United Nations Improvement Help Framework (UNDAF) for Uzbekistan is an efficient software for interplay between the federal government of Uzbekistan and the worldwide group within the context of the implementation of precedence areas of socio-economic improvement within the nation within the medium time period.

As a part of the implementation of the primary duties outlined within the Improvement Technique of New Uzbekistan, political contacts between Uzbekistan and the UN on the highest ranges have noticeably intensified lately.

Uzbekistan attaches explicit significance to efforts to place an finish to the numerous years of bloody struggle in Afghanistan, which have introduced huge disasters to the Afghan individuals and develop into a supply of great threats to your entire area. Our nation makes an efficient contribution to the implementation of UN applications for the post-conflict reconstruction of Afghanistan; specifically, it has opened a bridge on the Uzbek-Afghan border for worldwide deliveries of humanitarian provides and is aiding within the development of many infrastructure services on the territory of Afghanistan.

Uzbekistan supplies all attainable help to worldwide organizations and particular person nations in finishing up their humanitarian actions in Afghanistan by Termez. Thus, on the initiative of the management of Uzbekistan, an Worldwide Transport and Logistics Hub was created in Termez to make sure centralized and focused supply of humanitarian items to Afghanistan. The alternatives in Termez are actively utilized by the Workplace of the UN Excessive Commissioner for Refugees and the World Meals Program.

Because of the Tashkent Convention on Afghanistan, held in March 2018, its remaining declaration was circulated in April of the identical yr as an official doc of the 72nd session of the UN Common Meeting and Safety Council. As well as, details about the efforts made by the management of Uzbekistan to peacefully resolve the scenario in Afghanistan and point out of the Tashkent Convention have been included within the report of the UN Secretary-Common, “The State of affairs in Afghanistan and its Implications for Worldwide Peace and Safety,” printed in September 2018.

The holding of a convention round Afghanistan in July 2022 in Tashkent additionally turned a fantastic contribution of Uzbekistan to making sure sustainable peace and stability on this nation. At the moment, work is being carried out inside the UN to advertise the initiative of the President of Uzbekistan to create an Worldwide Negotiating Group on Afghanistan.

Cooperation between Uzbekistan and the UN on problems with ecology and environmental safety is intensifying. On this space, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev attracts consideration to a different acute and urgently fixing planetary drawback—the tragedy of the Aral Sea—and requires focusing the efforts of the world group on “decreasing the harmful impression of this environmental catastrophe on the livelihoods of thousands and thousands of individuals dwelling in Central Asia and preserving the pure and organic steadiness within the Aral Sea area.”

In accordance with the initiative of the President of Uzbekistan, put ahead throughout the basic debates of the 72nd session of the UN Common Meeting, in 2018, underneath the auspices of the UN, a Multi-Associate Belief Fund (MPTF) on human safety for the Aral Sea area was created, the presentation of which befell in November 2018 on the headquarters of the group’s residence with the participation of its Secretary Common António Guterres.

Because the UN chief acknowledged throughout the presentation, “this construction will considerably enhance the dwelling situations of the native inhabitants and can contribute to the implementation of the Sustainable Improvement Objectives.”

On the initiative of our nation and collectively with the UN Workplace in Uzbekistan, on October 24–25, 2019, an Worldwide Excessive-Stage Convention on Declaring the Aral Sea Area a Zone of Environmental Innovation and Know-how was held in Nukus. About 250 contributors from 28 nations, together with leaders and representatives of authoritative worldwide organizations, took half in it.

On December 19, 2019, the UN Common Meeting at its plenary session adopted a particular decision “Sustainable Tourism and Sustainable Improvement in Central Asia,” the initiative of which was put ahead by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev in April 2019 in Beijing throughout a gathering with UN Secretary-Common Antonio Guterres. The draft doc, developed by Uzbekistan and submitted on behalf of all 5 Central Asian nations, was unanimously supported by all UN member states. The doc was co-authored by over 50 nations in North and Latin America, Asia, Africa, and different continents, which signifies widespread recognition by the worldwide group of the relevance and timeliness of the initiative of the chief of Uzbekistan.

In Uzbekistan’s interplay with the UN, particular consideration is paid to the problems of preserving and strengthening non secular tolerance and fixing urgent issues associated to the lives of younger individuals. The pinnacle of our state, throughout the 72nd session of the UN Common Meeting in New York, put ahead an initiative to develop and undertake the UN Common Meeting decision “Enlightenment and spiritual tolerance.”

Talking from the excessive rostrum of the UN, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev stated that the primary aim of the decision proposed by Uzbekistan is “to make sure common entry to schooling and the elimination of illiteracy and ignorance.” The doc is meant to “promote tolerance and mutual respect, guarantee non secular freedom, defend the rights of believers, and stop discrimination towards them.”

In accordance with profound transformations in all spheres of society, Uzbekistan for the primary time nominated its candidacy for the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) for 2021-2023 and, with the help of nearly all of states, turned a member of the main and most authoritative worldwide physique within the discipline of human rights safety.

Uzbekistan’s cooperation with UNESCO deserves particular consideration, which has risen to a qualitatively new stage lately. In 2018, in Paris, in 2019, in Samarkand, and in 2022, in Tashkent, conferences between President Shavkat Mirziyoyev and UNESCO Director Common Audrey Azoulay befell.

In 2021, in collaboration with UNESCO, the Worldwide Advisory Committee on the Safety of Historic Heritage Websites was created. In the identical yr, in Khiva, on the initiative of Uzbekistan and along with UNESCO, the Worldwide Cultural Discussion board “Central Asia: On the Crossroads of World Civilizations” was organized. The decision “Khiva Course of: Additional Improvement of Cooperation in Central Asia,” developed because of this discussion board, was unanimously adopted by the UNESCO Common Convention at its forty first session in November 2021.

In July 2022, Uzbekistan, for the primary time in its historical past, turned a member of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage for 2022–2026,

On November 14–16, 2022, the second UNESCO World Convention on Early Childhood Care and Schooling was held in Tashkent with the participation of UNESCO Director-Common Audrey Azoulay, representatives of about 150 nations, and officers of worldwide organizations. Following the 216th session of the UNESCO Government Board, held on Could 10–24, 2023, in Paris, the decision “Implementation of the Tashkent Declaration and commitments to take measures to rework early childhood care and schooling” was unanimously adopted.

12 parts of Uzbek tradition are included within the UNESCO Consultant Checklist of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity: Shashmakom, the cultural area of Boysun, Katta Ashula, the artwork of wit Askiya, the traditions and tradition related to pilaf, the traditions of celebrating Navruz, the preservation of conventional applied sciences for the manufacturing of atlases and adras on the Margilan Heart for the Improvement of Crafts, Lazgi, miniature artwork, Bakhshi artwork, sericulture, and conventional silk manufacturing, and conventional tales about Khoja Nasreddin.

Worldwide tourism is actively growing in our nation. Cooperation with the United Nations World Tourism Group (UNWTO), which Uzbekistan joined in 1993, performs an essential position on this. The UNWTO regional heart for tourism improvement on the Nice Silk Highway operates in Samarkand. The Worldwide College of Tourism “Silk Highway” has additionally been established in Samarkand, which is among the most well-known and prestigious establishments of upper schooling and the primary college within the discipline of tourism in Uzbekistan.

The twenty fifth session of the UNWTO Common Meeting can be held in Samarkand on October 16–20, 2023. There may be lively cooperation with the World Well being Group (WHO) within the combat towards infectious and non-infectious illnesses, selling a wholesome life-style, and strengthening the nationwide well being care system. The framework for cooperation between Uzbekistan and WHO is a two-year cooperation settlement between the Ministry of Well being of Uzbekistan and the WHO Regional Workplace for Europe.

Delegations from Uzbekistan often take part in classes of the World Well being Meeting and the WHO Regional Workplace for Europe. Since 2021, WHO has been the lead group to help the nation in implementing well being sector reform and piloting it in a pilot area (Syr Darya), together with the introduction of public medical health insurance.

In recent times, the efforts of the United Nations Kids’s Fund (UNICEF) in Uzbekistan have considerably intensified. In November 2022, the discussion board was efficiently held in Tashkent with the Worldwide Public Basis “Zamin” “Guaranteeing kids’s rights to a wholesome atmosphere”, devoted to World Kids’s Day.

On February 11, 2021, in New York, throughout a session of the UNICEF Government Board, a brand new Nation Cooperation Program of the Fund for Uzbekistan till 2025 was permitted.

The Inhabitants Fund (UNFPA) occupies a big place within the UN system in Uzbekistan within the implementation of applications within the areas of inhabitants and reproductive well being. Uzbekistan is finishing up productive work with the fund by making ready and conducting a inhabitants census.

On the present stage, the fifth UNFPA nation program is being carried out, inside the framework of which varied trainings, seminars, and conferences on reproductive well being are being held. Facilities for social and authorized help for girls have been created within the nation, and work is underway to replace scientific protocols, modernize medical establishments, and prepare and enhance the {qualifications} of specialists.

In November 2022, along with UNFPA, a Demographic Laboratory was launched within the Republic to strengthen the capability of presidency officers on inhabitants points and the event of demographic science and analysis.

There may be an intensification of interplay between Uzbekistan and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Girls (UN Girls). Along with this construction, worldwide boards and conferences on gender and youth points are organized, initiatives are carried out in specialised areas, and measures are taken to completely help Uzbekistan’s efforts to extend the position of girls in society.

The Worldwide Labor Group (ILO) extremely appreciates the progress achieved in Uzbekistan lately to create situations for respectable work, eradicate pressured and baby labor, and defend the rights and freedoms of employees. Our nation has ratified 20 ILO conventions, together with 9 out of the ten elementary ones. Taking into consideration the suggestions of the ILO, a brand new version of the Regulation “On Employment” and a brand new version of the Labor Code have been developed and adopted.

At the moment, the nation program on respectable work of the Republic of Uzbekistan for 2021–2025 is being carried out, which incorporates such areas as bettering the authorized framework regulating labor relations, increasing alternatives for schooling, employment, and respectable work for youth, ladies, and susceptible teams of the inhabitants, and strengthening the institutional capability of social dialogue and companions.

In recent times, the Worldwide Group for Migration (IOM) has develop into considered one of our nation’s vital companions. At the moment, the Highway Map for the Improvement of Cooperation between Uzbekistan and IOM is being carried out. Along with the IOM, initiatives on labor migration, border administration, combating human trafficking, and bettering the abilities of specialists in recruiting labor migrants are being carried out within the republic.

In brief, the efforts of our nation are absolutely supported by the management and member nations of the UN, because the initiatives put ahead by the Uzbek facet are in step with the objectives of the worldwide group, together with the Sustainable Improvement Objectives, aimed toward strengthening peace, stability, and prosperity on our planet.

As an lively supporter of lasting peace and an initiator of a complete enlargement of cooperation within the worldwide area, Uzbekistan at all times pays nice consideration to interplay with the UN and its specialised constructions.

Undoubtedly, the participation of President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on the World Leaders’ Discussion board will enable Uzbekistan to announce new essential concepts and initiatives that can serve to unravel the worldwide issues of our time within the identify of common sustainable improvement.