The Permanent Mission of Turkmenistan to the UN organized and held the third meeting of the Group of Friends on Sustainable Transport in a virtual format.
The meeting was attended by UN Permanent Representatives of the Group member countries, Executive Secretary of the International Center for Transport Diplomacy (ICTD) Igor Runov, Secretary General of the SLOCAT Partnership on Sustainable Low-Carbon Transport Marusha Kardama, President of the International Education and Research Network on Global Supply Chains (GSCC) Mrs. Chung Tam.
Opening the meeting, Aksoltan Atayeva, Permanent Representative of Turkmenistan to the UN, informed about the results of work within the Group for the first half of 2023. The upcoming steps and a number of proposals for the development of multilateral cooperation at the UN platform on sustainable transport issues were also outlined.
During the meeting, the following issues were considered:
The participants expressed their strong support to Turkmenistan on the draft resolution of the UN General Assembly “World Transport Day”.
There were proposals to further expand the activities of the Group in order to regularly exchange views on ways to overcome challenges in the transport and logistics sector, ways to minimize regional and global barriers in this sector, and new initiatives of the UN member states in the field of transport development, according to the website of the Permanent Mission of Turkmenistan under UN.
Earlier, we reported that the Permanent Representatives to the UN of Turkmenistan and Ireland held talks.
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