Azerbaijan, Baku, Aug 30 /Trend M.Aliyev/
Turkmenistan is one of the leading manufacturers and suppliers of energy resources and having a great transit potential, is committed to the principles of diversification of international cooperation in the energy area, Ambassador of Turkmenistan to Azerbaijan Toyli Komekov said at a press conference.
"Turkmenistan bases its ideas on the fact that a long term and sustainable development requires a modern, responsible international system of energy supply which meets developing conditions," he added.
He noted that in the framework of the 67th session of the UN General Assembly, Turkmenistan will continue its consistent implementation of initiatives launched by President Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov in providing a reliable and stable supply of energy resources to the world markets.
"Turkmenistan will focus on the further development of the provisions of the UN General Assembly resolution for reliable and stable transit of energy and its role in a sustainable development and international cooperation, unanimously adopted in December 2008," he said.
The Ambassador added that Turkmenistan intends to make full use of the mechanisms of energy diplomacy designed to promote productive development of the negotiation process in this area.
"In this direction we will continue taking a stand for making multilateral consensus solutions designed to be the foundation of a fundamentally new model of relations in the world energy sphere. These are based on the principle of compatibility of interests of producers, transit countries and consumers of energy resource and the ability of the world community to come to a common view on future configuration of the supply routes," he added. "Work will be conducted to establish the interregional energy dialogue under the UN auspices."
He added that special attention will be paid to the creation of an international mechanism aimed at ensuring the effective functioning of the system of energy supply.
Turkmenistan will propose to start the substantive work on launching the process of creating an international legal instrument which includes three main elements: a multilateral UN document (convention, treaty), institutional mechanism (the relevant UN agency, designed to monitor the implementation of a multilateral document), a database (collection and data analysis of fulfilling the commitments taken by the countries) to develop this initiative at the 67th session of the General Assembly.
"As the first step in this direction, we consider it expedient to form an international expert group in cooperation with the UN which could consist of representatives of all interested member states of the organisation," he said.