The UN recognizes the Tashkent Declaration 56 years later

The Tashkent Declaration has been recognized as an official document of the UN General Assembly. This is reported by the news agency “Dunyo” (World).

It was noted that the Tashkent Declaration, adopted by the participants of the international conference on regional cooperation in Central Asia on the implementation of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy on 3-4 March in Tashkent, has been recognized as an official document of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly.

The document has been translated into the six official languages of the United Nations – Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish – and has been distributed to all UN Member States and specialized agencies.

«The adoption of this document as an official document of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly is evidence of the recognition of the efforts of Uzbekistan to prevent and combat terrorism by the international community», – says the report.

For reference, in 1966, on the initiative of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the former Soviet Union, Alexey Nikolayevich Kosygin, the President of Pakistan Muhammad Ayub Khan and the Prime Minister of India Lal Bahadur Shastri met in Tashkent. At the end of the meeting, the Tashkent Declaration was signed.
The meeting was held to resolve tensions arising from the armed conflict between India and Pakistan in Kashmir in August-September 1965.

The Tashkent Declaration provides for a number of practical measures in this regard. These include the return of the armed forces of the two countries to their pre-conflict positions, the resumption of diplomatic missions and the resumption of economic and commercial relations between the two countries. Tashkent Declaration became a basis for peaceful settlement of disputes between India and Pakistan.