Meeting between Chairman of the EC IFAS and the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Central Asia

Astana, April 28, 2025 – Chairman of the Executive Committee of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea (IFAS), Mr. A. Orazbay held a meeting with the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Central Asia and Head of the UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA), Mr. K. Imnadze.

During the meeting, the parties discussed their joint participation in a side event to be held on the margins of the High-Level International Conference on Glacier Preservation, which will take place from May 29 to 31, 2025, in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.

As part of efforts to further expand the partnership, an agreement was reached to sign, in the near future, a Memorandum of Understanding between IFAS and the United Nations on cooperation in developing mechanisms for monitoring and preventive response to environmental threats in the Aral Sea basin.