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Paragraphs in "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" coded as SCIR

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Pre.1 Republic of Kazakhstan, Republic of Kyrgyzstan, Republic of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Republic of Uzbekistan, hereinafter referred to as states-participants:
Pre.2 Taking into account the global character of the Aral Sea designation 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;
Pre.3 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 countries;
Pre.4 Recognizing the necessity and urgency of uniting material and financial resources in order to overcome the crisis through an environmental safety system in the region, primarily in the zone around the Sea;
Pre.5 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;
Pre.6 Agreed upon the following:
Art.1 ARTICLE I
Art.1.1x States-participants recognize as common objectives: 
Art.1.1x.ax - ensuring rational usage of the limited land and water resources of the Aral Sea basin in order to ensure the necessary social and economic development and well-being of their people;
Art.1.1x.bx - 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 and mineralized collector and drainage waters;
Art.1.1x.cx - 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;
Art.1.1x.dx - restoring the balance of the destroyed ecosystems in the region, primarily in the Amudarja and Syrdarja Deltas and on the exposed seabed areas, creating manmade stable landscapes there;
Art.1.1x.ex - 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;
Art.1.1x.fx - 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;
Art.1.1x.gx - 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;
Art.1.1x.hx - 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;
Art.1.1x.ix - 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;
Art.1.1x.kx #NAME?
Art.2 Article II
Art.2.1x States-participants consider it necessary:
Art.2.1x.ax - to establish, on a parity basis, the Interstate Council for the Aral Sea basin crisis, and under it:
Art.2.1x.bx - Standing Tashkent-based Executive Committee;
Art.2.1x.cx #NAME?
Art.2.1x.dx - Coordinating Commission on Water Resources, acting in conformity with the Agreement signed on February 18, 1992 in Almaty.
Art.2.2x The statute on interstate Agreement is approved by the Heads of the states-participants
Art.3 Article III
Art.4 Article IV
Art.4.1x The present Agreement is open for joining by any state interested in addressing the tasks and objectives determined within it.
Art.4.2x This Agreement is concluded for a ten-year period and is being considered for extension for a similar time period, provided none of the states-participants rejects it.
Art.4.3x 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.
Art.5 Article V
Art.5.1x The present Agreement comes into force upon signature.
Conc.1 Executed in Kayl-Ords on March 26, 1993 in one original copy in Russian. The original copy is kept in the Archives of the Government of the Republic of Kasakhstan, and the latter will forward the certified copy to the states that have signed this Agreement.
Conc.2 FOR THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN
Conc.3 FOR THE REPUBLIC OF TUKENMENISTAN
Conc.4 FOR THE REPUBLIC OF KYRGYZSTAN
Conc.5 FOR THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN
Conc.6 FOR THE REPUBLIC OF TAJIKISTAN