Azerbaijan, Baku, Oct. 5 / Trend , G.Dadashova /
Counsellor of the Tajik permanent mission to the UN Khusrav Noziri said his country supported the initiative to provide universal access to modern energy services and to ensure a 40 percent reduction in global energy intensity by 2030.
Noziri said the international community must begin a new age of development that was focused on quality, the UN reported.
"Such a transformation required an entirely new conceptual approach that would take into account the interests of both the present and future generations," Noziri said at the meeting of the Second Committee of the 66th UN General Assembly on Oct.4.
Associating himself with the Group of 77 and the Group of Landlocked Developing Countries, he said the current state of development was specifically characterized by the fact that the world had reached "ultimate quantitative growth".
International trade and direct investments would be instrumental in achieving development goals, he said.
Noting that his country was currently negotiating to join the World Trade Organization, he said the development of regional trade and economic cooperation was of high importance.
Regarding climate change, Tajikistan had proposed to establish an international fund to save glaciers, given that water was essential to development and the preservation of life, he said, pointing out that Central Asia had suffered drought in recent years which had resulted in the drying up of the Aral Sea.