The issue of transport lies at the very heart of human prosperity, productivity and well-being.
This has always been true, but amid the rapid acceleration of globalization, the movement of everything from people to food and natural resources has become a nexus issue, touching nearly every aspect of human life.
Under the leadership of President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, the Central Asian country of Turkmenistan has been making efforts within the U.N. and in other high-level international forums toward recognizing the concept of sustainable transportation as central to our shared prosperity, beginning with the Ashgabat Declaration of Sept. 4, 2014. The declaration led in turn to two U.N. resolutions on the topic, the most recent being 70/197, which was proposed by Turkmenistan and co-sponsored by 84 nations on Dec. 22, 2015, and read, "Towards comprehensive cooperation among all modes of transport for promoting sustainable multimodal transit corridors."