RGA/11/2
Sponsored by Dean Compton, Colten Rawson, Mac Smith of Brentwood Academy
The delegates above represented the Delegation of Kyrgyzstan.
This legislation was filed in the Special Political and Decolonization category
Presented as part of the MUN B 2023 conference
| 1 | We the delegation of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan do hereby: |
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| 3 | Acknowledging the highly damaging Russian occupation and oppression of Kyrgyzstan from 1876 |
| 4 | to 1991, a period spanning over one-hundred years, |
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| 6 | Calling to attention the exploitation of natural resources during that time, most notably and |
| 7 | recently uranium and plutonium, |
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| 9 | Alarmed by the detrimental environmental effects of this mining, including but not limited to: a |
| 10 | 1958 mining that caused a dam failure, resulting in nuclear waste collapsing into the water system |
| 11 | (this damage had a lasting impact up to the present), radioactive particles diffusing into the air, |
| 12 | and lasting damage to Kyrgyzstan’s working population due to impressed labor under abhorrent |
| 13 | conditions, |
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| 15 | Noting the Kyrgyz supreme court’s ruling in 2019 to ban uranium mining has failed to properly |
| 16 | reverse the impact of the Russian occupation, |
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| 18 | Emphasizing that this is a regional crisis that affects nearby Tajikistan, eastern Uzbekistan, |
| 19 | southern Kazakhstan, and western China, |
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| 21 | Urges the UN to assist in a program to clean up the Kyrgyz region; |
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| 23 | Requests three-million USD (0.01% of UN annual budget) in air purification systems; |
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| 25 | Further requests another three-million USD (0.01% of UN annual budget) in water purification |
| 26 | systems; |
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| 28 | Affirms that these will be installed over the next year by volunteers from the Kyrgyz |
| 29 | Environmental Group and put into full function by December of 2024; |
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| 31 | Expects the AQI air quality to have decreased by a full ten points by the end of 2025, taking |
| 32 | Kyrgyzstan from its current hazardous air state; |
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| 34 | Further expects the regional water quality improvement to greatly assist in UNICEF’s recent |
| 35 | projects in the area; |
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| 37 | Notes that the entirety of central Asia will benefit from this resolution. |
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