Turkmenistan to head International Fund for Saving Aral Sea

By  Trend

A meeting was held in Ashgabat as part of preparation of Turkmenistan’s chairmanship at the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea (IFAS), the Turkmen Foreign Ministry said in a message.

The representatives of United Nations (UN), World Bank (WB), European Union (EU), the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), the Regional Environmental Center for Central Asia (CAREC) also participated in the working meeting, the message said.

During the discussions, the representatives of the above-mentioned structures stressed that Turkmenistan will become a platform for the Central Asian countries to make joint efforts in the further development of regional water and environmental cooperation, the ministry said.

The IFAS was established in 1993 to support scientific and practical research and organize financing social and economic and environmental programs in the region aimed at improving environmental situation of Aral Sea region.