Resolution Of The Heads Of States Of The Central Asia On Work Of The Ec Of Icas On Implementation Of Action Plan On Improvement Of Ecological Situation In The Aral Sea Basin For The 3 -5 Years To Come With Consideration Of Social And Economic Development Of The Region
Source:
(Main issues)
The Heads of the States of the Central Asia have resolved:
1. To take into consideration the information provided by Mr. A. I. Ilamanov,, the Chairman of the EC of the ICAS, on the implementation of Action Plan on improvement of ecological situation in the Aral Sea basin for the nearest 3 - 5 years with consideration of social and economic development of the region (main issues).
2. To instruct the ICAS:
-to improve the work of the EC concerning coordination and supervision on the implementation of the Plan, and to develop mechanism for interaction with international agencies;
-to ensure efficient work of Commission for Social and Economic Development, Scientific, Technical and Ecological cooperation.
Accomplished in the town of Dashkhowuz on March 3, 1995 in one original copy in Russian.
The original copy is kept in the Archives of the Government of Turkmenistan. The Government will provide each State, that had signed the Resolution, with a certified copy.
Signatures:
for the Republic of Kazakhstan
for the Kyrgyz Republic
for the Republic of Tadjikistan
for Turkmenistan
for the Republic of Uzbekistan
Resolution of the Heads of States of the Central Asia on the formation of funds of the IFAS
The Heads of the States of the Central Asia - founders of the IFAS have resolved:
l. To take into consideration the information provided by Mr. A. N, Nurushev, Executive Director of the IFAS on the formation of funds of the IFAS.
2. To instruct the Executive Directorate of the IFAS within one month's period in coordination with the Governments of States founders of the Fund to determine the amounts of funds allocated to the implementation of regional programs.
The Governments should transfer the specified amounts to the IFAS and its branches by November 1, 1995.
3. To instruct the Governments of the States - founders to report on the annual basis to the Executive Board of the IFAS on the amounts of funds, channeled to the implementation of national programs, related to the Aral Sea Basin problems.
Accomplished in the town of Dashkhowuz on March 3, 1995 in one original copy in Russian.
The original copy is kept in the Archives of the Government of Turkmenistan. The Government will provide each State, that had signed the Resolution, with a certified copy.
signatures:
for the Republic of Kazakhstan
for the Kyrgyz Republic
for the Republic of Tadjikistan
for Turkmenistan
for the Republic of Uzbekistan
Resolution of the Heads of States on changes in the composition of the ICAS and amendments to the Regulations on the ICAS.
The Heads of the States of Central Asia have resolved:
1. To introduce into the composition of the ICAS:
from the Republic of Kazakhstan:
Mr. Esimov, Akhmetjan Smagulovich, Deputy Prime Minister;;
Mr. Sagadiev, Kenjgali Abenovich, President of the National Academy of Sciences;
(instead Messrs, Abilsiitov G. A, and Tursumbaev B. M.);
from the Kyrgyz Republic:
Mr. Melnichenko, Valery Nikolaevich, of Minister of Water Economy;
(instead Mr. Zulpuev M.)
from the Republic of Tadjikistan:
Mr. Akilov, Akil Gaibullaevich, Deputy Prime Minister;
Mr. Makhmudov, Isroil Ismoilovich, First Deputy Minister of Economy and Foreign Economic Relations;
Mr. Eshmirzoev, Ismat, Minister of Melioration and Water Economy;
Mr. Pachadjanov, Daler Nabidjanovich, Vice President of the National Academy of Sciences;
(instead Messrs. Nazriev M., Shafoev V, Safarov N, M. and Djalilov M. R.);
from Turkmenistan:
Mr. Rajapov, Matkarim, Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers;
Mr. Kurbanov, Dortkula, Minister of Nature Use and Environment Protection;
(instead Messrs. Babakulyev J. and Ashirov N. A.);
from the Republic of Uzbekistan:
Mr. Dzhumaniyazov, Bakhrom Yadgarovich, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Karakalpakstan;
Mr. Gorshkov, Yuri Konstantinovich, Head of Sector of the Cabinet of Ministers;
(instead Messrs Yuldashev R. I, and Shadimetov Yu. Sh.) .
2. To establish rotated chairmanship on the meetings of the ICAS, where the representatives of the States of Central Asia will take the Chair in turn in alphabetic order for 1 year period, acquiring the rank of Deputy Head of the Government for the said period; to introduce corresponding changes into the Regulations on the ICAS.
3. Consecutive meetings of the ICAS and the Executive Board of the IFAS should be held in October, 1995 in the town of Kzyl Orda,
Accomplished in the town of Dashkhowuz on March 3, 1995 in one original copy in Russian.
The original copy is kept in the Archives of the Government of Turkmenistan. The Government will provide each State, that had signed the Resolution, with a certified-copy.
signatures:
for the Republic of Kazakhstan
for the Kyrgyz Republic
for the Republic of Tadjikistan
for Turkmenistan
for the Republic of Uzbekistan
Resolution of the Heads of States of Central Asia on the election of the President of the IFAS
The Heads of States of the Central Asia have resolved:
1. To take into consideration the information of the President of the International Fund
for the Aral Sea Mr. A.N. Nazarbaev on activities of the Fund in 1993-1994 and approve the
efforts and measures undertaken by the Fund aimed at improvement of the socio-ecologic situation in the Aral Sea region,
2 . To prolong the terms of power of the President of the Fund A.N. Natarbaev for the period of another year.
Accomplished in the town of Dashkhowuz on March 3, 1995 in one original copy in Russian.
The original copy is kept in the Archives of the Government of Turkmenistan. The Government will provide each State, that had signed the Resolution, with a certified copy,
Signatures:
for the Republic of Kazakhstan
for the Kyrgyz Republic
for the Republic of Tadjikistan
for Turkmenistan
for the Republic of Uzbekistan
Resolution of the Heads of States of central Asia on Candidate for Chairmanship in the EC Council of the ICAS
The Heads of States of the Central Asia have resolved.:
1. To appoint one permanent plenipotentiary representative from each Central Asian State that
will comprise the Council of the EC. Each member of the EC Council has one vote. ICAS should
make appropriate amendments in the EC Regulations.
2. To approve the appointment Mr. Rajapov Matkarim a part time Chairman of the Council of the
Executive Committee of the Interstate Council for Addressing the Aral Sea Crisis for a period of one year.
Accomplished in the town of Dashkhowuz on March 3, 1995 in one original copy in Russian.
The original copy is kept in the Archives of the Government of Turkmenistan. The Government will provide each State, that had signed the Resolution, with a certified copy.
Signatures:
for the Republic of Kazakhstan
for the Kyrgyz Republic
for the Republic of Tadjikistan
for Turkmenistan
for the Republic of Uzbekistan
Resolution of the Heads of States of Central Asia on changes in the composition of the Directorate of the IFAS
The Heads of States of the Central Asia have resolved:
To introduce into the Directorate of the IFAS:
from the Republic of Kazakhstan:,
- Mr. Pavlov Aleksandr Sergeevich, Minister for Finances;
- Mr. Izteleuov Bisenbay Izteleuovich, Chairman of the State Bank for Development of Kazakhstan;
(instead Messrs. Karamanov U.K. and Derbisov E. Zh.);
from the Kyrgyz Republic:
Mr. Hasanov Rafkat Fagazyanovich, Deputy Minister for Finances;
(instead Mr. Atashev K, K.);
from the Republic of Tadjikistan:
Mr.Muzafarov Anvarsho, Minister for Finances;
Mr. Alimardonov Murotali Mukhamadievich, Chairman of
the National Bank;
(instead Messrs. Yunusov I. Yu. and Kavmidinov K. K.);
from the Turkmenistan:
Mr. Geldyev Oraz Kurbanovich, Deputy Minister of Nature
Use and Environment Protection;
(instead Mr. Chorekliev T.).
Accomplished in the town of Dashkhowuz on March 3, 1995 in one original copy in Russian.
The original copy is kept in the Archives of the Government of Turkmenistan. The Government will provide each State, that had signed the Resolution, with a certified copy.
Signatures:
for the Republic of Kazakhstan
for the Kyrgyz Republic
for the Republic of Tadjikistan
for Turkmenistan
for the Republic of Uzbekistan
Resolution of the Interstate Council for Addressing the Aral Sea Crisis on the appointment of the Chairman of the EC of the ICAS
The Heads of States of Central Asia have resolved:
To appoint Mr. Matkarim Rajapov a part-time Chairman of the Executive Committee - Chairman of the Council of the EC of the Interstate Council for Addressing the Aral Sea Crisis for the term of one year.
Accomplished in the town of Dashkhowuz on March 3, 1995 in one original copy in Russian.
The original copy is kept in the Archives of the Government of Turkmenistan. The Government will provide each State, that had signed the Resolution, with a certified copy.
Signatures:
for the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan
for the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic
for the Government of the Republic of Tadjikistan
for the Government of Turkmenistan
for the Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan
JOINT DECLARATION by Presidents of Turkmenistan, the Republic of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan and the Republic of Uzbekistan
March 3, 1995
Dashkhowuz
We, Presidents of Turkmenistan, the Republic of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Uzbekistan, having gathered in Dashkhovuz for the annual meeting devoted to problems of the Aral Sea and having conducted bilateral and multilateral negotiations, DECLARE:
At present our Region is living through an important, crucial moment in our history, Since gaining independence and sovereignty by our states deep-root structural changes in their social, economic, political and cultural development are taking place. Today foundation of democratic government institutions and society at large are being laid down.
Based on the importance of the current moment, being conscious of our responsibility for the present situation and future of peoples of our countries, we confirm that equitable cooperation, good neighborhood relations and mutual respect will become fundamental principles of our policy toward each other. We declare of our willingness to by all means assist to establishment a favorable climate for close cooperation among other countries in political, trade and economic, scientific and technical, cultural and humanitarian areas,
Peoples living in this Region are united by common historical and cultural heritage, ages old traditions and moral values. They have always been living together in a spirit of mutual respect, peaceful disposition and good neighborly relations.
Along with common spiritual values we are also united by traditional trade and other economic ties based on energy, water and other natural resources of the region.
We, heads of new states, should bear this in mind, by our practical actions contribute to further growing of the great heritage left to us by our noble ancestors, should employ it for the purpose of revealing the economic potential available in the countries. This very potential should be employed for resolving vital issues of environment, among which the most burning is the problem of the Aral Sea.
Our countries are members of the United Nations organizations, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, CIS and other authoritative international organizations. Observing and keeping in their external policy to commonly recognized principles of international law, we declare on indisputable, respect to territorial integrity and sovereignty of each other, recognizing historically established boundaries. We also acknowledge the right of each state to independently decide ones way of development, to choose one's model of state and social structure, confirm our willingness to refrain from any declarations toward each other which might arise any doubt in relation to unity of our goals and might serve the interests of unfriendly forces.
We are engaged in resolving similar issues in the area of statehood building, creating in our countries just society based on democratic values, on abhorrence of political, religious and other forms of extremism.
We declare of our openness to equitable and mutually beneficial cooperation with each other, with all countries both on a bilateral and multilateral basis, of our firm and invariable adherence to these principles as a fundamental principle for attaining well-being and prosperity by our countries and peoples.
President of Turkmenistan
S. Niyazov
President of the Republic of Kazakhstan
N. Nazarbaev
President of the Kyrgyz Republic
A. Akaev
President of the Republic of Tajikistan
E. Rakhmonov
President of the Republic of Uzbekistan
I. Karimov
Agreement on joint activities in addressing the Aral Sea and the zone around the Sea crisis, improving the environment, and ensuring the social and economic development of the Aral Sea region
Republic of Kazakhstan, Republic of Krgyzstan, Rebublic of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Republic of Uzbekistan hereinafter referred to as states-participants:
taking into account the global character of the Aral sea desiccation and the associated deterioration of the environment in the zone close to the Sea as well as the overall ecological crisis resulting from the deficit of water resources in the basin;
realizing the danger of the process taking place to the health and well-being of the people in the region, and its negative impact on the environment in other regions, the air basin balance, the economic development and basic functioning of the Aral region and its negative impact on the environment in other regions, the air basin balance, the economic development and basic functioning of the Area region countries;
recognizing the necessity and urgency of uniting material and financial resources in order to overcome the crisis and to an environmental safety system in the region, primarily in the zone around the Sea;
confirming their commitment to the international water law principles, respecting the mutual interests of each of the sovereign states - participants of this Agreement in the matters of usage and protection of water resources in the basin, proceeding from the necessity of preserving the Sea;
agreed upon the following;
Article 1
States-participants recognize as common objectives:
ensuring rational usage of the limited land and water resources of the Aral Sea basis in order to ensure the necessary social and economic development and well-being of their people;
maintaining the required water quality in the rivers, reservoirs, and springs, due to an, in future, preventing the release into these bodies of industrial and urban waste waters, and polluted mineralized collector and drainage waters;
ensuring the water inflows to the Aral Sea required for sustaining its lowered but stable, ecologically acceptable, levels and by this means preserving the Sea as an object of nature;
restoring the balance of the destroyed ecosystems in the region, primarily in the Armudaja and
Syrdarja Deltas and on the exposed seabed areas, creating manmade stable landscapes there;
regulating the system and enhancing the discipline of water usage in the basin, and working out
the required interstate legal and regulatory acts that will provide for the application, for the
region, of unified principles of indemnifying for damages;
improving the sanitary and medico-biological living conditions, especially for the sea zone residents and addressing the urgent problem of a clean drinking water supply for the region;
working out and implementing the coordinated social and economic development strategy that would meet the requirements of environmental safety for the people in the region;
carrying out the measures for the protection of migrating animals, including those inhabiting the areas that border on the states-participants, and for creating the nature reserve zones;
on the basis of the new mutually acceptable terms that have been worked out, resuming the work on having additional water resources flow into the Aral Sea Basin;
fostering, to the maximum extent, scientific research, projects and other kinds of activities aimed at the resolution of the listed tasks;
creating most favored nation treatment conditions, and granting privileges and protection measures to the investors that put their funds into the programs and works aimed at environmental sanitation and social and economic development of the region.
Article II
States-participants consider it necessary:
to establish, an a parity basis, the Interstate Council for the Aral Sea basin crisis, and under it:
Standing Tashkent-based Executive Committee;
Commission of Social and Economic Development and Cooperation in Scientific, Technical, and Ecological Spheres
Coordinating Commission on Water Resources, acting in conformity with the Agreement signed on February 28, 1992 in Almaty.
The statute on Interstate Agreement is approved by the Heads of the states-participants.
States-participants agreed to draft a joint conception of addressing the Aral Sea crisis and rehabilitating the environment in the area around the Sea, and to draw up a coordinated program on the scientific research and activities, and also to create a common information system of monitoring the environment and to organize issuance of the "Information Review" an the Aral Sea Basin problems.
Article III
The Russian Federation participates in the Interstate council work as an observer in addressing the Aral Sea crisis and the rehabilitation of the disaster zone. It also provides the required financial and technical assistance in water treatment, creating the domestic and drinking water supply system in the region and fighting desertification. The Russian Federation also cooperates in the scientific and technical spheres, in designing projects of regional significance, in creating the environment monitoring system, and renders expert services and also assists in the training of specialists.
Article IV
The present Agreement is open for joining by any state interested in addressing the tasks and objectives determined within it.
This Agreement La concluded for a tan-year period and is being considered for extension for a similar time period, provided none of the states-participants rejects it.
A state-participant can withdraw from this Agreement having informed the Depository and other states-participants of its intent at least six months in advance.
Article V
The present Agreement comes into force upon signature.
Executed in Kzyl-Ords on March 26, 1993 in one original copy in Russian. The original copy is kept in the Archives of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and the latter will forward the certified copy to the states that have signed this Agreement.
FOR THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN FOR THE REPUBLIC OF TURKENISTAN
FOR THE REPUBLIC OF KYRGTZSTAN FOR THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN
FOR THE REPUBLIC OF TAJIKISTAN
