Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, April 24
By Huseyn Hasanov– Trend:
In the last decade of August 2018, Ashgabat will host the summit of the founding countries of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea (IFAS), the Turkmenistan State News Agency reported.
Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, who is on a state visit in Uzbekistan, proposed to organize meetings of the relevant commissions of the IFAS in May-June, and, if necessary, to hold a separate meeting of the Central Asian states at the level of the leaders responsible for the use of water resources.
Turkmenistan has always stated that water and energy problems in the region should be solved on the basis of universally recognized norms of international law, consideration of the interests of each country and with the participation of international organizations, including the UN, the report said.
Turkmenistan chairs the IFAS in 2017-2019.
The IFAS, established in 1990s in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, aims at financing joint projects and programs to save the Aral Sea and improve the ecological situation there.