Spirit of New Uzbekistan calls on world to unite in path of peace, growth

By Tanzila Narbaeva

Lately, the world has been troubled by surprising threats, conflicting relations, environmental penalties, geopolitical conflicts and a disaster of mutual mistrust.

In such a fancy interval, problems with nationwide statehood, and territorial and regional safety have gotten extra critical. On this sense, it’s plain as day how essential it’s to determine a spirit of understanding, tolerance, solidarity and belief within the mutual relations between states and political leaders.

In such a precarious state of affairs, Uzbekistan at this time has turn out to be a global area for dialogue, inviting creating international locations to its bosom. Moreover, the head of our nation is expressing himself as one of many energetic leaders who boldly raises the folks’s acute issues not solely within the area but in addition on the world stage in addition to selling superior initiatives for his or her rational options.

Over latest years, many influential and promising buildings, together with conferences of heads of state of SCO, OTS, ECO, CIS and summits of organizations throughout the framework of the U.N., have been efficiently held in our nation, and that is acknowledged on the worldwide degree as effectively.

Final week, Uzbekistan’s capital metropolis, Tashkent, hosted the sixteenth summit of one other prestigious group – the Financial Cooperation Group. The summit was held below the theme “Towards Financial Stability and Improvement in Cooperation,” which was chaired by our president, a singular unanimity could be noticed within the opinions expressed by the leaders of the member states of the group and the proposals put ahead. Because of this the problems on the agenda are equally related for the taking part international locations.

Specifically, the pinnacle of our state has emphasised that there are nice alternatives and potential that haven’t but been used to increase all-round cooperation between the member states.

It was additionally emphasised that the commerce index between member international locations of this construction is $85 billion, which is just eight % of their complete international commerce. It was talked about that a few years of efforts to conclude a preferential commerce settlement didn’t present the anticipated outcomes, and lots of restrictions and issues nonetheless stay in the best way of making barrier-free commerce.

With the intention to give new impetus to the cooperation inside ECO, the president proposed to develop the conceptual doc referred to as, “Strategic Objectives of Financial Cooperation – 2035.”

On this essential doc, it was outlined that it was essential to concentrate to the principle areas comparable to selling mutual commerce, strengthening transport and communication hyperlinks, activating industrial cooperation, making certain vitality safety, combating local weather change and deepening cooperation within the subject of tourism and cultural-humanitarian change.

The president additionally expressed his sensible proposals concerning plenty of essential points on the agenda of the summit and acknowledged that Uzbekistan is able to function a handy and helpful platform for his or her dialogue.

Specifically, it was famous the significance of creating a program of joint actions to extend the movement of mutual investments, shield them and deepen industrial cooperation, in addition to manage an interregional industrial exhibition and maintain its first occasion in our nation in 2024.

With the intention to strengthen efficient cooperation within the combat in opposition to local weather change and environmental safety at a time when climate-related dangers are growing, it was proposed to carry the primary convention of the high-level platform on ecological points within the framework of the upcoming Samarkand Local weather Discussion board in 2024.

A proposal was put ahead on the ECO Secretariat to determine a vacationer advisory committee consisting of tourism administrations and main specialists of the member international locations and to carry its first assembly within the metropolis of Shahrisabz, which was declared the vacationer capital of the group.

Such initiatives are taken by a noble and nice one who sees the world as a complete, who accepts the ache in any a part of it as his personal, and who considers human values as the best worth. That is the truth that the constructive concepts and initiatives boldly put ahead by our president from the platforms of varied worldwide organizations are accredited by the world neighborhood and make a terrific contribution to making sure secure growth and peace on this planet, particularly in our territory.

In his speech on the 78th session of the U.N. Basic Meeting, the pinnacle of our state drew the eye of the leaders of the political sphere to the truth that elementary adjustments are going down within the system of worldwide relations, a disaster of confidence is noticed on a worldwide scale, issues within the functioning of world safety establishments and deviations from the norms of worldwide regulation are growing. All these are components for the growing tensions occurring on a big scale.

How ought to international locations behave in such complicated circumstances?

The pinnacle of our state clearly answered this query in his speech. To begin with, it was famous that it’s essential to keep up the spirit of sensible solidarity and cooperation, to place widespread pursuits above slender pursuits, and to strengthen the thought of consolidating international locations.

As an example, our president from the podium of the U.N. underlined with confidence, “With the help of the worldwide neighborhood, Central Asia will proceed to observe the trail of unity. Turning Central Asia right into a peaceable and affluent territory will stay a precedence goal of Uzbekistan’s international coverage.”

Definitely, at this time, at a time when the spirit of sensible cooperation, solidarity and engagement is changing into extra essential than ever, it’s noteworthy that the international locations of Central Asia are on the trail of fine neighborliness, strategic partnership, mutual cooperation and growth.

Nations whose souls and languages are shut to one another have at all times been capable of finding a clever resolution to any drawback, whether or not it could be it non-public one or a typical one.

We see this reality within the background of our nation’s membership within the Group of Turkic States with the president’s agency political will, and his nice efforts to keep up and strengthen the inter-ethnic dialogue, one thing that’s more and more missing at this time.

As well as, politicians and specialists emphasize that the inclusion of Uzbekistan, one of many cradles of world civilization, into this worldwide group which beforehand operated as a council, performed an essential position in transformating it right into a full-fledged group.

As well as, the initiatives of the pinnacle of our state are aimed toward additional increasing multifaceted and mutually helpful relations with all member states and strengthening strategic partnership relations to extend the worldwide status and affect of this group on a worldwide scale, in addition to to make sure the well-being of our Turkic peoples, who’ve been pals and brothers from historical instances.

Just lately, on the final assembly of the heads of states of the Group of Turkic States held in Astana, Kazakhstan, our president was awarded the “Highest Order of the Turkic World.” Definitely, at a time when mutual competitors amongst international locations is intensifying and the method of wrestle to keep up its rightful place on this planet’s neighborhood, we take into account such recognition achieved on the worldwide degree as the best evaluation given to the chief of our nation.

It’s identified that the commerce, financial and humanitarian relations of our nation with the member states of the Commonwealth of Unbiased States are creating an increasing number of. It must be famous that in the previous few years, Uzbekistan’s participation within the actions of the Commonwealth has turn out to be extra energetic. Throughout this era, many of the initiatives put ahead by the president of Uzbekistan in lots of essential instructions have been supported by the member international locations and carried out.

On the assembly of the Council of Heads of the Commonwealth of Unbiased States not too long ago held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, our president was awarded the best award of the group — the CIS Medal of Honor for his nice contribution to strengthening friendship, good neighborliness and multilateral cooperation. That is, undoubtedly, one other recognition of the significance of the position of Uzbekistan on this construction and the territory.

Hikmet Eren, chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Financial Relations, Fund EkoEurasya, famous that he considers it well timed and related that the chief of Uzbekistan has put ahead initiatives aimed toward additional increasing mutually helpful cooperation throughout the framework of the CIS.

He remarked that “The proposal put ahead by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev to prepare a convention of main assume tanks and specialists of CIS international locations to be able to develop a brand new long-term agenda of multilateral cooperation will undoubtedly serve to consolidate efforts aimed toward creating multilateral relations between commonwealth member international locations.”

One can cite many examples of such worldwide recognitions. It’s value noting that the worldwide neighborhood says that owing to the constructive international coverage of the chief of Uzbekistan, a positive political atmosphere and belief have efficiently been fashioned not solely in Central Asia, but in addition among the many leaders of the world international locations.

At this level, the open and pleasant international coverage of the pinnacle of our state creates a stable basis for the event of the worldwide relations of our nationwide parliament. Throughout his visits to international international locations and from worldwide platforms, the president repeatedly reiterated the necessity to successfully use the probabilities of parliaments to deliver folks nearer to one another, and guarantee peace and unity on this planet.

Specifically, on Aug. 6, 2021, on the third consultative assembly of the leaders of Central Asian international locations within the nationwide vacationer zone Avaza in Turkmenistan, considering the growing position of parliamentarianism, the president proposed to carry the Regional Parliamentary Discussion board.

Shortly after this initiative, in February 2023, the primary inter-parliamentary discussion board of Central Asian international locations was held in Turkestan, Kazakhstan and the Turkestan Declaration, aimed toward additional strengthening inter-parliamentary relations to be able to help complete strategic partnership between the international locations of the area, was adopted. In 2024, Uzbekistan will host the discussion board.

Lately, our inter-parliamentary relations have often continued in such instructions as making certain peace and stability on this planet, strengthening humanitarian concepts, and increasing pleasant relations between international locations and peoples.

Specifically, plenty of worldwide boards and conferences have been held along with worldwide buildings such because the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the Inter-Parliamentary Meeting of the CIS, and the Parliamentary Meeting of the Group for Safety and Cooperation in Europe.

Examples of this are massive worldwide boards comparable to “International Inter-parliamentary Cooperation in Attaining the Objectives of Sustainable Improvement” held in Bukhara and “The Position of Parliament in Making certain Inter-ethnic Concord and Inter-religious Tolerance,” organized in Samarkand with the participation of most people and spiritual leaders.

Greater than 10 occasions have been held and eight ultimate paperwork have been adopted throughout the yr when Uzbekistan first chaired the dialogue of main ladies of Central Asia, which was organized on the initiative of the pinnacle of our state.

We always change mutual expertise on points comparable to regional ladies’s state administration, preventive diplomacy, environmental safety, entrepreneurship and enterprise, tradition, training, science, artwork and gender equality.

On the subject of our worldwide relations, it’s value noting with pleasure that 25 inter-parliamentary teams and two commissions primarily based on mutual respect and belief have been established.

Additionally, in 2022, the 14th summit of ladies leaders of the parliaments of the Inter-Parliamentary Union member states was efficiently held for the primary time within the territory of the CIS, in our nation. All these are a transparent instance of the reforms being carried out in our nation to develop parliamentarianism, guarantee human rights and democratize society, and their sensible outcomes are duly acknowledged by the world neighborhood.

President Mirziyoyev’s initiatives to revive inter-parliamentary relations throughout the framework of the Group of Turkic States are additionally noteworthy. At present, to be able to make sure the implementation of those initiatives, a “highway map” has been developed and is being carried out step-by-step.

Since 2017, relations between Uzbekistan and TURKPA have been stepped up. Since then, the parliamentary delegation of Uzbekistan has been actively taking part in plenty of occasions of the meeting.

In a phrase, our nationwide parliament ought to comprehensively develop international relations in its actions, take note of the problems of gender equality within the parliament, the principle precept of our newly adopted Structure — to construct a sovereign, democratic, authorized, social and secular state in addition to “Fop Human Worth and dignity of individuals,” actively started to make sure the ideas of democracy and justice primarily based on the noble concept.

Sure, the initiatives and initiatives put ahead by the chief of our nation as a defender of our pursuits within the worldwide area are enthusiastically accepted by progressive humanity, the truth that our nation is more and more strengthening its rightful place on this planet’s neighborhood raises the stature of our nation and will increase the sense of satisfaction.

This, in flip, requires us, the residents of Uzbekistan, to unite in direction of the nice objective of making certain the pursuits of the folks of our nation. This additionally calls to really feel the duty for the destiny of the tribe.

Undoubtedly, all this serves not solely the inner growth of our nation but in addition the rise of its fame on the world scene, changing into a sexy nation that’s open to everybody and the place it’s potential to determine mutually helpful cooperation.

 

Tanzila Narbaeva is chairwoman of the Senate of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan