United Nations General Assembly High-level Meeting on Sustainable Transport Wednesday, 17 April 2024 General Assembly Hall, UN Headquarters   SUMMARY On 17 April 2024, the President of the General Assembly at its seventy-eighth session, H.E. Mr. Dennis Francis, convened the High-Level Meeting on Sustainable Transport as part of the Sustainability Week, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The event aimed to highlight sustainable and effective solutions to improve the ba...

Good afternoon, Your Excellencies, Distinguished delegates, Let me extend my gratitude to the United Nation Economic and Social Council and all UN Regional Commissions for organizing this event and your active involvement to the implementation of the UNGA resolution A/RES/78/148 entitled “Strengthening the links between all modes of transport to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals”, especially into the preparation process of the United Nations Decade of Sustainable Transport for the...

Your Excellencies, Distinguished participants, At the outset let me express our gratitude to U.S. Ambassador to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations Lisa Carty and Special Advisor on International Disability Rights Sara Minkara for the initiative to convene and host today’s C5+1 Special Session on Disability Rights. Turkmenistan reaffirms its unwavering commitment to the principles enshrined in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). We...

Your Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen, Distinguished friends,   At the outset, I would like to express my gratitude to the Permanent Missions of Bahrain, India, Indonesia, Latvia, Türkiye and Qatar for their collaboration in organizing this event. I also would like to thank Mr. Dennis Francis, the President of the General Assembly and Mr. Li Junhua, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs for their presence and valuable remarks.   Dear friends and cyclists...

The Final declaration adopted during the first Ministerial meeting of the Group of Friends of Sustainable Transport held at United Nations Headquarters in New York on 16 April 2024, was published and distributed in the six official languages of the UN as an official document of the 78th session of the General Assembly. The full text of the document can be found at the following link https://undocs.org/Home/Mobile?FinalSymbol=A/78/881. The Declaration provides a legal basis for further acti...

The summary document of the special event entitled “High-level dialogue on transport and energy connectivity for increasing development financing: the United Nations Decade of Sustainable Transport 2026–2035 – Ashgabat Platform for Energy Connectivity”, which was held on the margins of the Economic and Social Council forum on financing for development follow-up, on 23 April 2024, at Headquarters, was published and distributed in the six official languages of the UN as an official document of the...