UN General Assembly
2013

technologies and a more efficient energy supply and energy saving. Tajikistan, which is experiencing economic and population growth, lacks large oil and gas deposits but has huge hydropower potential. It is making every effort to develop all aspects of power generation, on which the population’s well-being critically depends. Our Government is undertaking additional efforts to make full use of its own potential when it comes to addressing socioeconomic issues. On 2 March, Tajikistan successfully completed the negotiation process and joined the World Trade Organization as the one hundred and fifty-ninth member of that multilateral system for regulating world trade. We are interested in advancing the trade interests of developing countries, including those of landlocked countries. In that context, on 16 and 17 September in Dushanbe, the tenth annual meeting of the Intergovernmental Commission for the Transport Corridor Europe-Caucasus-Asia was held. That meeting was followed on 18 September by the High-level International Conference on Development of Road Transport and Transit Potential in Central Asia for the period up to 2023. Those events made an additional