Dmitry Patrushev delivered remarks at the plenary meeting of the Third UN Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries
Dmitry Patrushev delivered remarks at the plenary meeting of the Third UN Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres
President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedow
Dmitry Patrushev delivered remarks at the plenary meeting of the Third UN Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries
Dmitry Patrushev delivered remarks at the plenary meeting of the Third UN Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries
Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Patrushev addressed the plenary meeting of the Third UN Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries, where he outlined the Russian Federation’s approaches to confronting challenges faced by these states.
“This conference is a key platform for developing mechanisms to solve problems of landlocked developing countries. The Russian Federation appreciates the UN efforts to render assistance to landlocked countries. For our part, we reaffirm our commitment to promoting partnership-based international relations. With UN participation, we are ready to share best practices in overcoming hurdles related to the effort to ensure equal trade and economic conditions for all countries,” Dmitry Patrushev said.
Dmitry Patrushev outlined a number of key problems faced by these countries, specifically logistics, food security, and water resources.
He stressed that logistical issues could be addressed primarily by way of establishing stable logistical chains. Russia has a huge transit potential and consistently advocates pro-active international cooperation in developing transport corridors.
Russia’s main corridor, East-West, ensures a seamless connection between Pacific ports and China, Mongolia, the Central Asian states, the Caucasian states, the East European states as well as with the Baltic and Black seas. The key railways in Siberia and the Russian Far East are working to increase their throughput capability.
Apart from that, Russia is developing the North-South international transport corridor leading from Russia to Central and South Asian countries, the Persian Gulf, and East Africa. That is, it affects a wide range of landlocked countries. The transport corridor is functioning in an active manner.
Dmitry Patrushev noted that lifting barriers to international trade in agricultural products should be a response to the food security challenge. Russia is one of the key exporters of food, including grain, vegetable oils, and fish. The deputy prime minister underscored that his country was ready to build up food supplies to global markets, share experience of using advanced agrarian technologies with partners, and help training professionals.
Dmitry Patrushev reported that Russia was focusing on the state of bodies of water and their rational use. It boasts an effective system to manage the water industry and has 70 trans-border rivers, whose regime is regulated by intergovernmental agreements. These compacts are related to monitoring their state, coordinating the use of their resources, and conducting research.
The deputy prime minister also told the plenary meeting that Russia was having a dialogue with other countries within the framework of the Tehran Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Caspian Sea.
