The implementation of the first phase of the project “Regulation of the Syr Darya Riverbed and saving the northern part of the Aral Sea” allowed solving many of the most important tasks facing the region. At the same time, according to experts, many problems still remain unresolved, including environmental problems. These and other issues will be discussed at the Aral International Forum for Sustainable Development, which is scheduled to be held in Kyzylorda in the last days of May.
Nurlybek ZHOLDASBAYEV, Head of the Regional Department for Natural Resources and Environmental Management, told the KV correspondent about the goals and tasks of the forthcoming forum.
– As far as I know, the forum will consist of two parts. What tasks and functions will each part have?
– The first part of the forum is of a theoretical, methodological, conceptual nature. It includes information and scientific reports on the most topical problems of the Aral Sea region and other world ecological analogues. Speeches of the heads of central state bodies and international organizations are expected in this part. We are planning to present works, programs and road maps, developed by outstanding scientists, authoritative research structures and organizations is planned.
In the second part of the forum will be announced messages on money in the Central Asian region, the Syr Darya basin, and the Aral Sea in general. A presentation of new applied projects for the rehabilitation of the Aral Sea and adjacent areas is expected, as well as the signing of a number of memorandums and contracts. These documents foresee investing in the restoration of the Aral Sea, preserving its investment, planting trees and combating desertification of the region, building roads and industrial facilities, developing social infrastructure and others.
The platform, which will be created during the days of the forum, will contribute to solve the most urgent problems of sustainable development of the Aral Sea, preventing interstate conflicts in the joint use of resources. On the other hand, it is the consolidation and promotion of promising ideas and progressive vision, as well as the latest technologies based on scientific approaches.
I can see that the work of the forum will not be limited to discussing the ecological and socio-economic issues of the Aral Sea. Along with them, topical issues related to other regions of the world will be touched upon. Including, industrial ecology, global climatic changes, complex water themes, as well as positive experience of solving problems in the modern world.
– Who is the organizer of the forum and which organizations will represent its participants?
– The main organizers of the forum are the akimat of Kyzylorda oblast, the international scientific complex “Astana” and the executive board of the International Fund for Saving the Aral in the Republic of Kazakhstan. In addition, active participation in the organization of this important event will be taken by Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Institute of Geography of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
It is expected that the forum will be attended by central state bodies of the Republic of Kazakhstan, heads of state bodies of Kazakhstan and Central Asian countries. The heads of diplomatic missions of the Russian Federation, the United States, Italy, Japan, Korea, Belarus, Iran in the Republic of Kazakhstan were invited to the forum, as well as heads of UN, OSCE, Islamic Development Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. In addition, heads of missions of the German Society for International Cooperation in Kazakhstan (GIZ), the Japan International Cooperation Agency and the World Health Organization are expected to attend the forum.
– What results of the forum you think you can expect?
– We expect that interest will be shown by a number of international organizations and business structures. Within the framework of the forum, memorandums on cooperation will be signed on the issues of solving socio-economic and environmental problems of the Aral Sea area.
In addition, we expect to sign an agreement of intent on cooperation between the Committee for Forestry and Wildlife of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Executive Board of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea, the International Scientific Complex “Astana” and the Sustainable Development Fund of Kazakhstan on the project “Creation of a green belt along the eastern coast of the Aral Sea sea and settlements “. Another document implies cooperation between the International Scientific Complex “Astana”, the Executive Board of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea in the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan for the project “Creation of the Aral center of adaptation of wild animals to climate change”.
Another important document, which is expected to be signed at the end of the forum, is an agreement on cooperation between the akimat of Kyzylorda oblast, the Executive Directorate of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea and the International Scientific Complex “Astana”. This document implies the project of the Aral Scientific-Tourist Center on Lake Kamystybas, as well as other research and applied projects and programs aimed at sustainable development of the Aral Sea area.
– Thank you for the interview.
The conversation was conducted by Kazybek KAMALULY.
Source: http://kzvesti.kz/kv/secondstrip/19986-priarale-radi-ustoychivogo-razvitiya-ekonomiki-i-zdorovoy-ekologii.html