AKIPRESS.COM - The UN General Assembly adopted a Turkmenistan-sponsored resolution “Towards comprehensive cooperation among all modes of transport for promoting sustainable multimodal transit corridors”. The resolution was co-sponsored by 84 countries, reports Turkmenistan.ru.

The resolution was adopted by consensus. The resolution was co-sponsored by all the Central Asian countries, a significant number of the Asia-Pacific, European, Latin American and African countries.

The resolution retains the main clauses of the Ashgabat Declaration that was adopted in September 2014. It provides for a framework for cooperation between all modes of transport for establishment of continuous freight traffic along the inter-regional transport corridors.

The resolution stresses the need for coordination of activities of the existing platforms for cooperation in the field of transport, such as the Global Partnership for Sustainable Transport, the Partnership for Sustainable Low Carbon Transport and the Group of Friends of Sustainable Transport.

The resolution notes the importance of addressing special needs of developing countries without access to the sea, including through establishment and development of efficient transit transport systems, linking them to international markets.

The UN Secretary-General suggested to convene the first world conference on sustainable transport at the end of 2016. Turkmenistan proposed to hold it in Ashgabat, and this proposal was preliminary approval at the meeting of the Senior Advisory Group on Sustainable Transport during the Paris Conference on Climate Change that was attended by the UN Secretary General.