Water as a Universal Value
Ensuring peace, stability and development in the modern world largely depends on a balanced solution of water management problems. Water is the source of life and abundance. Therefore, we are obliged to use this valuable resource rationally. The rational use of water resources is one of the most important issues of our time. Ensuring peace, stability and development in the modern world largely depends on a balanced solution of water management problems.
Turkmenistan, having a rich thousand-year experience in the rational use of water, takes rational approaches and puts forward international environmental initiatives, taking into account the global situation. One of these initiatives is the idea of establishing the Regional Center for Climate Change Technologies in Ashgabat under the auspices of the United Nations. Speaking at the 7th World Water Forum in Daegu (South Korea), President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov noted that water issues could become a separate area of activity of this center. Proposals to open a Regional Center for Climate Change Technologies in Central Asia in Ashgabat and develop the UN Special Program for the Aral Sea Region and the UN Water Strategy underlie our country’s water diplomacy initiatives.
Water issues are inextricably linked to security areas such as energy, environment and food security. Therefore, the water diplomacy of Turkmenistan is of a complex nature, and all parties interested in this area are primarily focused on joint work with the United Nations and neighboring countries to implement large-scale long-term projects. Due to their historical and natural-geographical features, issues related to water management, especially with the transboundary use of water in the Central Asian region, require the creation and implementation of new formats of international cooperation. This is due to the fact that access to water resources and their effective management directly affect the development of states, economy, social system and the well-being of peoples. Here water resources of the native land are the most valuable component of the natural wealth of our country, because water is very important for the operation of all sectors and systems of the national economy.
Amanbagt Ussayeva,
2nd year student of the Faculty of International Law
of the Institute of International Relations
of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan.