Meeting with representatives of the UNECE and IWAC

On 9 April 2025, the Executive Committee of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea (EC IFAS) was visited by representatives of the Secretariat of the UNECE Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (Geneva, Switzerland), as well as the International Water Assessment Centre (IWAC, Astana), which support the implementation of the Convention and its Protocol on Water and Health.

The participants discussed the possibility of cooperation between EC IFAS and the Water Convention Secretariat, including the development and launch of new projects in the water and environmental sector of the Aral Sea Basin. Particular attention was given to dam safety in Central Asia — a highly relevant issue in the context of accelerating climate change.