BGA/1/16
Sponsored by Atharv Mehendale, Shrivatsan Venkatraman, Sashank Dara, Aneek Polepalli of Ravenwood High School
The delegates above represented the Delegation of Turkmenistan.
This legislation was filed in the Social, Humanitarian and Cultural category
Presented as part of the MUN B 2023 conference
| 1 | To the General Assembly: |
| 2 | |
| 3 | Concerned by the fact that over 300,000 people in Turkmenistan do not have access to food, |
| 4 | Aware of the fact the people of Turkmenistan must obtain their food by rations, |
| 5 | |
| 6 | Stressing that the people of Turkmenistan can only get a limited amount of food regardless of |
| 7 | family size, |
| 8 | |
| 9 | Cognizant that the populace has had little growth past two years due to prevalent food shortages |
| 10 | since 2017, |
| 11 | |
| 12 | Taking into account that the COVID-19 pandemic affected the cultivation of crops and livestock in |
| 13 | Turkmenistan greatly, |
| 14 | |
| 15 | Noting with grave concern that Turkmenistan does not have the adequate resources to produce |
| 16 | food to the entire population, |
| 17 | |
| 18 | Recognizing that the domestic food production of Turkmenistan only meets forty percent of what |
| 19 | the country needs, |
| 20 | |
| 21 | Alarmed that people must often wait for hours to obtain food at stores while still returning empty |
| 22 | handed, |
| 23 | |
| 24 | Disturbed that the people are not supplied with food, which is a human right, |
| 25 | |
| 26 | Further alarmed that the country has failed to reach its crop harvesting goal of 1.6 million tons of |
| 27 | grains a year and only reached forty percent of the way there, |
| 28 | |
| 29 | Deeply disturbed that the average Turkmen makes 715 USD and spend 535 USD, or nearly 75 |
| 30 | percent of their income on purchasing food, |
| 31 | |
| 32 | Bearing in mind that 11.5 percent of Turkmenistan’s child population suffers from stunting as a |
| 33 | result of malnutrition, |
| 34 | |
| 35 | |
| 36 | Fully aware that no efforts have been made by the UN or the government of Turkmenistan to help |
| 37 | the food insecurity, |
| 38 | |
| 39 | We the delegation of Turkmenistan hereby: |
| 40 | |
| 41 | Asks the United Nations for 20 million US dollars, |
| 42 | |
| 43 | Declare that terraces be formed out of the Kopet Dag mountain range and utilized for farmland, |
| 44 | Directs that a portion of the money be used to convert 100 new acres into arable land for rice and |
| 45 | 400 new acres into arable rice for wheat, |
| 46 | |
| 47 | Approximates that this will yield seven hundred thousand pounds of rice and 1.5 million pounds of |
| 48 | wheat, |
| 49 | |
| 50 | Proclaims that drip irrigation systems shall be used to deliver water across the terraces since drip |
| 51 | irrigation is the most efficient and conservative method of distributing water across large ranges of |
| 52 | land, |
| 53 | |
| 54 | Resolves that the water shall be taken from sources such as the Caspian Sea and the Amu Darya |
| 55 | River, as well as the water from rainfall amongst the Kopet Dag range, |
| 56 | |
| 57 | Further proclaims that seventy trucks must be used for transportation specifically 25 trucks will be |
| 58 | to transport rice and 45 trucks will be used for the transportation of wheat, |
| 59 | |
| 60 | Reaffirms that the activation of this resolution will work towards the United Nations’s Sustainable |
| 61 | Development Goals worldwide, |
| 62 | |
| 63 | Trusts that the UN will enact this resolution on January 1, 2024. |
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| 65 |