Regional Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in the Aral Sea Basin

Ashgabat, 30 November – 1 December 2024 –The Executive Committee of the IFAS (EC IFAS) participated in the Regional Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in the Aral Sea Basin, organized by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) on the initiative of the Turkmen side.

During the meeting, representatives from Central Asian countries, the EC IFAS and UN agencies discussed the first version of the study on the abovementioned issue prepared by ESCAP.

In general, the participants agreed on the feasibility of this Program, aimed at strengthening regional cooperation to mitigate and minimize the consequences of disasters in the Aral Sea basin, without duplicating functions and efforts, as well as in the context of the tasks facing IFAS, in particular, the implementation of individual projects of the Program of Actions to Assist the Aral Sea Basin Countries (ASBP-4).