Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Countries of Caucasus and Central Asia achieved significant success in fighting poverty, education and gender equality. But the region will not be able to solve some tasks, including in environment protection, by 2015 without additional efforts. Currently, the volume of renewable water resources is decreasing in Caucasus and Central Asia, which threatens with water deficit in the region, the UN News Center reported.

The Millennium Development Goals Report 2014, presented in New York on 7 July, presents many positive results, achieved by Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

Till the beginning of 2015, the region solved task on decreasing population, who suffering from malnutrition, twice. The share of people, suffering from malnutrition, fell from 14% in 1990 to 7% in 2013. Number of people, leaving in poverty or less than for US$1.25 per day, decreased from 10% in 1990 to 4% in 2010.

The countries of the region almost reached goal on full coverage of children with primary education as nine children from ten are studying at the school and graduate last class. The equality of genders were also almost reached in Caucasus and Central Asia.

Share of women in parliaments of these states grew from 7% in 2000 to 19% in 2014.

In 1990-2012, the region decrease child mortality in the age up to five by twice. But the states of the reach cannot achieve goal on decreasing child mortality by two third from 1990 to 2015.

The maternity death in Caucasus and Central Asia is the lowest among developing states – 39 cases per 100,000 live births in 2013. The maternity death level fell by 44% in 1990-2103. This progress, however, does not mean that the region will be able to cut maternity death by three fourth by 2015.

The majority of maternity deaths in the region can be decreased with expansion of access to regular medical examination. The countries of the region achieved almost fully coverage with qualified medical obstetrics services. About 98% of women in childbirth were covered with these services in 2012.

The report warned that renewable water resources in Caucasus and Central Asia are falling. Level of abstraction in the region is about 50%. It is close to the threshold of 60%, in which the physical water shortage begins to threaten lives of people and environmental conditions.

The report’s authors fear that the region will not be able to solve the task of providing expanded access to improved drinking water sources. Furthermore, it would not achieve significant progress in the establishment of protected areas of land and sea and conservation of natural resources.

Eight Millennium Development Goals, agreed by all countries in 2000 at the Millennium Summit of the United Nations, provide a variety of tasks, covering indicators on poverty, hunger, health, gender equality, education and environment. The most of them should be solved before the end of 2015.